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it. tteraturr. P 0 E 'l l R Y . EVENING IN SPRING Written for the Liverpool Standard ) I sought a grassy seat, when Day Was dying in the west ; his parting smite the wave. No souLd but seem'd offering, until thou, sweet bird gent on the way To Pt Of night, thy dirge [eparting light ifts of young And bright th Shed from her sunny pinion ! Tender thoughts Glow'd in my breast of lov'd ones early dead— Fond memories of those who, scarcely known To grief below, with undimm'd eye, and brow Unclouded, found a shelter iu the tomb : Departed ere the storm its fury waged ! Hid in the harbour from the ills to come! Ere loom'd the weary year, the evil day When Pleasure gilds not the dub stream of Time, And Age's wintry bleakness is unfelt Calm musings came a no —sweet reveries Of that unpictur'd morn of j' y, that dawns, Life's short day o'er. Sudden I fell asle, p, When fancy, uncontroll'd, quickcn'd to life My waking thoughts—l was with seraphim, And wav'd through . :deti's vales the unfading palm I I woke—and as 1 went my way, I thought Of the high dreams of immortality. 'Alen touch'd by Death's dark pencil, and in Glory burst ! Brunswick-road. SAMUEL HUGGINS NOTICES NEW PUBLICATIONS Woman's Love: a Romance of Smiles and Tears. By G. Herbert Rodwell, illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. London : W. It. Sams, St. James's-street. The first two numbers of this publication arc before us, and promise excellently. The work is well got up, and the illustrations, we need not say, are of a high order. The Knight of Gwynne : a Tale of the Time of the Union. By Charles Lever. Dublin : Curry, jun., and IVe have now received three numbers of this new pro duction of Mr. Lever's genius, which fully maintain his reputation as a tale writer. The characters thus far are well drawn ; and, as affording a graphic description of Irish society in the year of the passing of the act of union, the character of an Irish parliament, and the mode in which its assent to that measure was procured, it is pecu liarly interesting at the present crisis. The Enchanted Rock : a Comanchi Legend., By Percy B. St. John. London : Hayward and Adam, Pater- poster-row We have been pleased with the perusal of this attractive little volume. The writer possesses great graphic power, has evidently mingled in the scenes which he so forcibly places before us, and his work throughout is excellent sentiment, and sound moral and religious feeling. SELECTIONS. MATERNAL TUITION.—No one can sympathise with a child's feelings so truly, so intimately, as woman ; he is deficient in the kindness which in her overflows ; from her heart she pours out nourishment to the infant mind, which man's intellect in vain attempts to supply. No education, from which the mother virtually or actually is excluded, can suffice and satisfy; no education can be normal in which woman has no part—for without her, though the understanding may be brought out, the will which yields not to hard and harsh motives, but to soft and inviting spontaneities—which does not and canaot respond to mere intellectual teaching, but answers only to sympathetic persuasions—must remain comparatively dormant. Christian morals taught by female lips cease to be syllogistic disputations and become, at once living principles, receiving illustration not only in the pictures of fancy, and the moving shapes of strong imagination, but in the affectionate reality, true loving-kindness, good will, and well-being, which live in woman.—Herraud's Essay on Education. RUSSIAN POLICE —A young man on his wedding-day hired some diamonds for his bride, which were stolen du ring the night. Ile waited on the commissary of police, who, after having heard his complaint, opened his desk, and showed him the jewels. The young man hastened to take diem. " There are 6,000 rubles to pay," said the commissary. The poor young man observed, that, as he lived on his salary, he could cot procure such a sum ; upon which the commissary quietly locked the drawer which contained the diamond,. The bridegroom immediately ed to General Kakoschkin, and gave him the parti f what had just transpired. " I have no such offi ce ; and dismissed him with robber in the very act, and the police-office. " Oh, that is an old " said the commissary, and let him go." A i had attended the family of the commis- Petersburg. The latter, on mnpense him for his attend- If you would do me a great the watch that is hanging up against the is, in fact, the very watch that had been aim some time previous, and had since re ands of the police.—Golovine's Russia. OF WATERLOO. —The cuirassiers now cers," said t a haughty ai brought him to certain pliys asking him ho ance, the phy from I onined in tt hief of th A man toot he could rec transferred their favours to some other quarter, leaving us at liberty to contemplate the havoc they had trade; and the Duke of Wellington riding by, again addressed our general with " Well, Halkett, how do you get on ?" The general replied, " My lord, we are dreadfully - cut up ; can you not relieve us for a litt:e while?" " Impossible," said the Duke. " Very well, my lord," said the general, " we'll stand till the last man falls !" The next time elle cuirassiers made their appearance in our front, the Life Guards boldly lode out from our rear to meet them, and in point of numbers they seemed pretty well matched. The French waited with tie utmost coolness to receive them, opening their ranks to allow them to ride in. As they were so close, and we had nothing to do at the time, we had a fine opportunity of seeing them, and were much ed to find the Life Guards so good a match for them ; wondered why they had not been led against them in the day. It was a fair fight, and the French fairly beaten and driven off. I noticed one of the s attacked by two cuirassiers at the same y maintained the unequal conflict for a he disposed of one of them by a . His combat with the other bout five minutes, when the guardsman struck slashing back-handed stroke, and sent his inside it. The horse pi. and w,, e or two, whe n the thra NORSE BURIALS e distance, way with the headless rider sitting erect in the blood spouting out of the arteries like so many fountain G —Recollections of Military Service. :.—Just without the city gate, on the Albaro road, is a small house, with an altar in it, and a stationary money box, for the benefit of the souls in pur `-ry ; and, to stimulate the charitable, there is a mon 'inting on the plaster, on either side of the -presenting a select party of souls, frying. One of them has a grey moustache, and an elaborate head of grey hair; as if he bad been taken out of a hair dress er's window and cast into the furnace. And there he is— a most grotesque and hideously comic old soul—for ever qstering in the real sun, and melting in the mimic fire, '‘e gratification and improvement (and the contribu tions) of the poorer Genoese. It may be a consequence of the frequent direction of the popular mind and pocket • -- „ Is in purgatory, but there is very little tender ^f the dead here. For the very poor, ' - "'nP angle of the walls, and d door, 'or the bodies •e are, immediately out ad a jutt it of the fortification, near the sea, —one for every day in the year— which all remain closed up, intil the turn of each comes When the better ion of dead bodies for its daily r kind of people die, or are at the point of death, their near est relations generally walk off; retiring into the country , g the body to be disposed -ze from them. The proces , _ usually formed, and the coffin borne, and the fu ral conducted by a body of persons called a confraler -17.0, as a kind of voluntary penance, undertake to perform these offices, in regular rotation, for the dead ; '-ut who, mingling something of pride with their humility, dressed in a loose garment covering the whole person, -ar a hood concealing their faces, with breathin g apertures for the eyes. The effect of this cos -hastly ; especially in the case of a certain noa, who, to say the and who look— for a little change, and 1 , of, nystiperintend boles ar longing to ( were ghou HIP AT glish c n, capable of he most su . ....i,— never can pc Chinese I s, bearing off tt 'ravelling Letter PORE.-E ch different wilt in 1836 by acog- subscription amodig home building in a four times as many eted within it : it is teeple, or even a belfry. This deficiency, however, is about to be supplied by a subscription raised at the suggestion of the Biihop of Calcutta, during his last official visit to this portion of his immense diocese. [Since this was written, ttie chapel has been much improved, and an elegant steeple added to it. There seems to be some fatality attaching to clergymen at The last three incumbents, Messrs. Burn, died young, and of the same com ly own opinion is, that its to teetotalism. In her liberal allowance The Chi- bit lacked a Singapore Dat;a - .h, and too strict alder nd r !cordin . to the celes- ell worth seein he interior are very to make one believe the CI [leaven is seen decked figured satin, richly the wealthiest dames ight envy, law; the like . Her Majesty was r of the junk in which ppre harbour island turned out to h the town, with all h she ha h dollars, and does One day, e went to it warm climates, a me of wine I belie, a is a splendid build tial taste in such matt, the carving and generE beautiful. and sub will last a thou forth in r of the prou d with gi .dest citi brought from Chic she ca be occupied. On a thousand zo up her cred' shortly a teilige arsenic the To n thus:—" Sometime one moon, sometime two moon. Supp ose I wan t as k G o d for something, I g 4 churchee. Suppose I no want ask any thing, what for I go ?" On my asking whether he never went to return thanks for past favours, he seemed to think my question a very silly one, and said, "No use.' " The American chapel is a remarkably neat little building. Besides these, there is no other pl a ce of worship in Sin gapore worthy of notice.— Travels in the Far East. AMUSEMENTS OF A POPISH PEOPLE.—The barbarous and ungraceful mirth of the Lisbon carnival was not al tered in the least for the better this year, but considerably for the worse. The elegant and imaginative resources of this period consist in several thousands of people pelting each other for many successive days with beans, rotten eggs, dead rats, soot, and wat r. The streets during the past week have been strewn with beans which, if not thus squandered, might have afforded a meal to every poor person in the metropolis. Dead and even live rats have been let down from windows at intervals upon the heads of the passengers. From my balcony I reckoned twelve dozen cf eggs which were flung within a few hours on the Sunday before Lent. The walls were all plastered with the yolks, where they did not decorate Lisbonian noses. Many young fellows of taste poured dozens of them in succession into the windows of their cnamourates—an odd way of bringing them into subjection to the `• matrimo nial yoke." In a central street, a man thus foolishly en gaged lost his balance while intruding his boisterous mirth upon the passengers. He had stretched out too far in flinging a handful of beans, fell into the street from an upper window, and was killed on the spot. The unfortu nate man was the father of a numerous family of children, whom he has left in the greatest distress. It is to be hoped that government will take measures to suppress next year the orgies of the carnival both here and at Oporto, which have latterly risen to a shocking excess, and are irreconcileable with the slightest pretension to civilization. A club of young men, resembling that Thunder Club, of which Gonzale Bravo was a leading member, at Madrid, traversed the streets of Lisbon for the three days preceding Ash-Wednesday, accompanied by servants carrying baskets of eggs, and even followed by seges, or hackney-cabs, in which were other basketfuls of these disgusting missiles, and indulged themselves with the Hottentot amusement of flinging them with all their force at the windows and balconies as they passed along. It is impossible to describe the hideous appearance which the walls and windows of the metropolis thus plastered presented. The contemptuous waste of food was illus trated by a barbarous indifference to the appeals of human distress ; and one young sprig of nobility, while in the act of removing in a basket from a tenda, or chandler's shop, all the eggs which it contained, to be used as missiles, was implored by a beggar woman for a solitary copper, which he refused ! In addition to the loss of life which I have already recorded, I am informed that the life of a woman was sacrificed through a fall, occasioned by her stepping back in fright, upon seeing one of these Bayarda firing at her. Many ladies of respectability had eggs burst full in their faces, and one was seriously hurt on the temple. Others who ventured into the streets upon the early days had live rats and mice let down by strings on their bonnets and shoulders. A gentleman on horseback, in passing through Silver-street, the Cheapside of Lisbon, was pelted with an orange, when his horse became vio lently restiff, and instead of assisting him to quiet the animal, scores of people pelted him with oranges, eggs, and potatoes. For the honour of Portugal—even of Eu rope (for in that quarter of the globe is it still set down) —I trust such scenes will never be repeated. A TIGER FIGHT IN JAVA.—The exhibition took place on an extensive plain near the town, just after daybreak. A square of men, armed with native spears, was formed three deep, and one hundred yards across. Inside this square was placed a box resembling in shape a coffin, but much larger, containing a royal tiger fresh from his native forests, which had been brought to town the day previ ously for this express purpose. Imagine every thing ready, the square formed, the box in its centre, and a silent mul titude looking on—some perched on trees, some on the coacbboxes of the numerous carriages, others on horse back, and thousands on foot ; whilst the native chief of the district, with his friends, and the European officials ot the place, occupied a gay pavilion, placed in an advanta geous situation for viewing the coming strife. A native Javan, in full dress, is now seen advancing into the square, followed by two coolies or porters, one carrying a bundle of straw, the other a lighted torch. The straw is thrown over the box, and the torch-bearer stands ready to set fire to it at the end where the tiger's head is, the box being too narrow to permit his turning round in it. The leading native then lifts a sliding door at the other extremity of the box, carefully covering the opening thus made with mats, to prevent the light from penetrating, and inducing his royal highness to back out too soon. This operation completed, the straw is set on fire. The native and his two coolies now retire slowly, keeping time to Javanese music as they make their way outside the square. By this time, the fire had got fair hold of the box, filling it with smoke, and the tiger begins his retreat, his berth be coming rather warm. Presently, his hind quarters appear issuing through the sliding doorway, its covering of mat readily yielding to the pressure : by degrees, his hind feet gain firm footing outside, and his whole body is soon dis -1 played. On appearing, he seemed rather confused for a few seconds, and, laying himself quietly down, looked all round upon his foes, and gave a rear that made the welkin ring, and my young heart quake a little. He then rose, deliberately shook himself, turned towards the rising sun, set off first at a walk, then at a trot, which he gradually increased to a smart canter, till within a few yards of the points of the spears pointed at him ; he then came to the charge, and made a spring that surprised me, and, I fancy, every one present. I am afraid to say how high he leaped, but he was on the descent before a single spear touched him. This leap was evidently made with the intention of getting clear over the heads of the men and their spears too ; and he most certainly would have accomplished it, had be not leaped too soon, and fallen within the square, the height of the spring being quite sufficient for the pur pose. As it was, when on the descent, the spears of the six men neatest him being pointed at his breast, one of them inflicted a frightful wound. On reaching the ground the noble beast struggled hard for his liberty ; but, find ing his efforts of no avail, he ultimately started off at full gallop to the opposite side of the square, where he renewed his exertions, though with less vigour than that displayed on his first attempt, and with no better success. He then galloped twice round the square, just at the point of the spears. Not a man advanced to touch him, it being the rule that the tiger must come within the range of the spears before they can be used. He was ultimately killed while making a third attempt to escape, and thus ended the sport. His first charge was very brilliant and exciting ; his second much less so; his third and last was very fee ble. Immediately after the tiger's death, the same cere monies were gone through with a leopard, who took the spear-men rather by surprise, and, instead of trying to leap over their heads, darted in under their spears, got among their feet, and effected his retreat, to the no small consternation of the surrounding multitude, who soon scattered in all directions. He was, however, pursued by the men he had baffled, and was killed under a bridge in the immediate neighbourhood.—Travels in the Far East. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The American ship Liberty arrived at Cove on Monday with a cargo of Indian corn. The trial of Mr. H. J. Marcus, of Leeds, sharebroker, for forgery, has been postponed until next assizes Among the last inventions in London are bats," so that galvanism is going a-head. The English brig Vestal went on shore near Vi the sth instant. The master, mate, and six seamen were drowned, and eight seamen were saved. "galvanic enna, on At Bury St. Edmunds assizes, on Friday, two young men, aged nineteen and seventeen, were transported for fifteen years, for having set fire to a shed. Burton Flill House, the seat of J. Cockerel!, Esq., near Malmesbury, was destroyed by fire lately. The loss is ZlO,OOO. A policeman was convicted on Tuesday of an assault on Mr. Walsh, a gownsman, at the late riots at Cam bridge. _ _ _ On Wednesday, at the quarterly court of the East India a petition was presented from Lieut. Wag horn, praying for a pension for his services. The extensive cotton and india-rubber web factory of Messrs. Harr's and Hemel, at Leicester, has been de stroyed by fire. The damage is nearly £5,000 REVERSE OF FonTuNg.—A man who is now following the occupation of a drover at Smithfield Market, formerly kept a pack of hounds in one of the midland counties. proprietors. The jury that sat on the body of Reilly, who was lately killed in a public encounter with Cleghorn, near Newcas tle-on-Tyne, have returned a verdict of manslaughter against Cleghorn and his abettors. ACCESSION OF FORTUNE.--A labourer, named Bar ber, in the Portsmouth dock-yard, has been declared heir to a fortune of upwards of £30,000 by virtue of the deci sion of the lord chancellor. .3 17s. 9d. The force consists of 4,749 men, viz., one inspecting superintendent, 18 superintendents, 114 inspectors, 485 serjeants, and 4,131 constables. hares in DrurF-lan 1. 60. and 59 guineas eact Theatre They realized respectively The return on these shares was formerly £l5 per annum ; it is now £4. The execution of Ralph Joicey, for the murder of his father, took place on Tuesday, at Morpeth: He met his fate with great firmness, and on the previous day commit- ted to writing an ample confession Last weel;', in 13;adford-street Circus, Birwineham, Mr. Chapman was performing on the slack rope, when he missed his hold, and fell to the ground with a tremendous crash, suffering a fracture of the thigh bone. An additional lieutenant-colonel is to be added to each regiment about to be augmented, and it is also intended that instead of an acting staff tct the reserve battalions, as hitherto, an adjutant and a quarter master will be com missioned. Tom Thumb is acting at the Lyceum, showing off his preposterous littleness by sitting in an ogre's shoe, get-. out of a nutshell, and a He waddles from th iaring from under age; half hid in two or three moderate sized bouqt The Birmingham Advertiser gives an account of the appalling death of a poor girl, named Ellen Moran, who was killed in consequence of the machinery of a mill not being boxed off as the act requires. This is the second victim from the same cause within a fortnight. On Tuesday last, a cutler, named John Harper, 45 years of age, committed suicide at Sheffield, by taking After be had taken the fatal drug, he went to n-hall, asked to see the Mayor, and gave infor- I mation of v • Munn R.—Early on Sunday morning last, a murder was perpetrated in a low public-house in London. A vounc man named Jennings, unaer the impression that tl woman of the name of Mary Murray had robbed him of a shilling, struck her several blows of which she died in a few minutes. Jennings is in custody An iron market place has just b seen constructed at the Phoenix Iron Works, Glasgow, measuring 108 feet long, 60 feet wide, and surrounded by a verandah 12 feet wide, supported by handsome fluted columns. It is intended for Honduras, and is constructed of iron. PIGEON SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.--A shooting match came off on Mousehold Heath a few days since, be tween three gentlemen, for a sweepstakes of five guineas. The pigeons were trapped at forty yards distance ; and what is most singular, each gentleman killed his own two dozen ; the sweepstakes were, therefore, undecided. TIME WORKS WONDERS.—It is remarkable that the majority in favour of Sir Robert Peel's measure of total repeal is the same almost to a unit as that with which the same Parliament selected Lord John Russell's eight shilling duty. SHAMEFUL MUTILATIONS.—A week or two since some miscreant tore off one of the bass reliefs of the Wellington statue, Glasgow—a spur ; and on Tuesday, a ruffian fur ther mutilated this splendid work of art, by wrenching off a bayonet from the projecting figures at the base. A melancholy accident occurred at Kircaldy on Mon day. A considerable number of persons had assembled on the pier to witness the arrival and departure of vessels, when a sudden and furious gust of wind carried three of them into the sea. Two were rescued, but the third sunk and perished. The Carlton Club is split into two sections, Peelites and Protectionists. On Tuesday the election of a house com mittee took place; and the occasion was seized upon as a trial of strength between the two parties. The Peelites were beaten hollow, the Protectionist list being carried by a large majority. DISTRESS AT BRADFORD.—A public ix eeting was held at Bradford, on Monday, to devise measures of relief on behalf of the unemployed poor of the town ; when a pub lic subscription was originated, which amounted, up to Wednesday evening, to £Bl4, and would, no doubt, be greatly augmented before the end of the week. NOTTINGHAM ASSIZES.—At the assizes for this county, last Friday, there was not a single cause entered for trial, either for the town or the county—a circumstance unpre. cedented in the recollection of that remarkable person age, " the oldest inhabitant," and a fact by no means pleasing to the lawyers, whatever it might be to clients. Nearly all the spring vegetables, such as rhubarb, sea kale, radishes, new potatoes, &c. are now so plentiful in the south, that they are brought to the north and sold by the vegetable dealers at very reasonable rates. Brocoli of home growth, is remarkably fine, and, at this early season, is as plentiful as is usual. Rhubarb grown in the open air is also becoming plentiful. In the House of Lords on Monday Lord Dalhousie said that he regretted the violation of the Sabbath which had occurred on the 30th of November, by the deposit of rail way plans, which he considered highly unseemly, and he hoped in a few days to submit an amendment of the standing orders, which would prevent the occurrence of what was so obnoxious to public feeling. PRICE OF COAL.—The increased consumption of coal required by the manufacture of iron in the various works throughout South Staffordshire has had the effect of rais ing the price of best house coal to 16s. per ton, and even at this high rate it is difficult to obtain large supplies. In the immediate neighbourhood of the mines, and within 30 yards of the pit's mouth, the price of ordinary or second quality is 12s. per ton. How TO SICKEN JOSEPH ADY. An individual, at Gateshead, wbo has been pestered by Joseph Ady's com munications, bas adopted the expedient of sending Jo seph (who, by the way, never pays postage) a farthing en closed in a letter, informing him that the balance of the fee demanded (one pound) will be sent on receipt of the valuable information promised. The general adoption of this plan would no doubt soon induce Joseph to adopt a more legitimate occupation. RUABON.—The severe frost that set in early on Thurs day morning, after a heavy fall of snow, has completely destroyed the bloom upon the wall-fruit trees, and so much injured all the common fruits as to leave it doubtful whether they will ever come to perfection. Potatoes round this neighbourhood are very bad. Many farmers who have lately examined their hoods to their sorrow find the whole of their produce a mass of corruption. Prices are ruling from 2s. Bd. to 3s. 6d. per measure of 90 lbs. ORIGIN OF " Boz."—The following is said to be the origin of the signature " Boz," used by Mr. Charles Dickens :—A little brother of his so much resembled the Moses in the " Vicar of Wakefield," that be went by that name in the family ; but a younger girl, who could not then articulate plainly, was in the habit of calling him Bozie or Boz. The recollection of this simple circum stance led him to assume the name in the first article he published, and he after continued to use it. SOAP.—In the year ending the sth of January last, as we learn from a parliamentary return, there was made in Great Britain 2,683,5301 b. of silicated soap, 170,210,5611 b. of other bard soap, and 16,880,3701 b. of soft soap. The exportation of soap from Ireland to foreign parts has con siderably increased. In 1845 it was 10,668 cwt. 2qrs. 261 b., and in 1846 it was 21,272 cwt. 41b. The total exported to Ireland was, 13,513,3841 b. of hard soap, and 2,769,6001 b. of soft soap. 16 persons were convicted in the year for defrauding the revenue arising from soap. The total num ber of licenses now granted to soapmakers is 365, of which 163 reside in England, 21 in Scotland, and 181 in Ireland. SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN M . LEO D.—The steam-ship Queen arrived at Southampton with the Peninsular mails, brings an account of the death of Captain M`Leod, the late commander of the Great Liverpool, who died by his own hands immediately after the last of the passengers had departed for Corunna. He has been in the most de. sponding state of mind ever since the unfortunate loss of his vessel. Lieut. Williamson, the Admiralty agent of the Great Liverpool, lies dangerously ill at Corunna ; so much so that his life is despaired of. There is nothing further saved from the wreck. The ship is entirely gone to pieces, and what valuables floated ashore were princi pally purloined by the natives. THE GUANO TRADE.—It seems from a parliamentary return, that there were seven British vessels employed in the trade in 1841, the tonnage of which was 1,733, and the number of men 87 ; there were no foreign vessels employ ed in that year. In 1842 there were 41 British vessels, with a tonnage of 12,003, and 560 men ; and of foreign vessels three, with a tonnage of 1,081, and 59 men. In 1843 there were thirteen British vessels, of 4,056 tons, with 202 men ; no foreign vessels were employed that year. In 1844 there were 286 British vessels, the tonnage was 81,9 02, and 4,313 men ; in that year there was only one foreign ship employed, with 207 tons, and 18 men; and in 1845 there were 679 British vessels, with 219,764 tons, and 11,434 men, and four foreign vessels of 1,170 tons and 52 men. The bill just introduced into the House !of Commons by Government, for rendering effective the service of the Chelsea out-pensioners, and extending it to the out-pen sioners of the Greenwich Hospital, proposes to extend the provisions of the 6th and 7th Vict. c. 25, to the Green wich pensioners. It also provides that the number of pensioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals, so to be enrolled in the United Kingdom at any one time, may be any number not exceeding twenty thousand men; and that they may be called out for inspection or exercise on any number of days not exceeding twelve in any year.- -The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is also to be empow ered to call out the Irish pensioners " to assist the civil power." HONOURABLE CONDUCT.—In the year 1819, Mr. James Cockshutt, who was then a manufacturer, residing near Colne, was compelled to compromise with his creditors for 9s. in the pound; for which he then received an unqualified release. He has since that time been residing at Brant ford, in Western Canada, where he has been carrying on a prosperous business; so much so, that, about five years ago, he determined to pay the whole of his creditors the remaining lls. in the pound. Finding, however, that the money he could spare from his trade was not sufficient to pay the whole, he paid as many as he could, and has since regularly paid interest to all those who were left unpaid ; and, last week, he remitted the necessary funds, and has now paid every one 20s. in the pound, for debts which he had contracted upwards of 26 years ago. COMICAL CASE.—As a country woman, with her mar ket basket on her arm, was admiring a bit of finery in a draper's window, at York, her partner in life came up, without being noticed by her, and, perceiving her intense gaze at what she could not purchase, he secretly ab stracted a handkerchief from her basket, in joyful antici pation of his wife's vexation upon discovering its absence. Unluckily for the joker, a gentleman, to whom the parties were strangers, observed the trick, and desired a constable to secure the villain. The rubber was seized.on the pave ment, and instantly carried before a magistrate. In the meantime the unsuspecting woman was informed of her loss, and hurried away to identify the luckless handker chief. She did so, it was her own, the very one which she had been deprived of, and turning with honest indignation to look - at the thief, she exclaimed, with astonishment and fear, " Oh, lauks ! gentleman, it's my husband ?" The arm of the law was paralysed. The prisoner was the rob ber of his own property ; the magistrates laughed, the gentleman and the constable laughed, and, the charge be ing laughingly dismissed, the liberated husband and his artless wife posted away to tell their village neighbours what awful things had happened to them in York. INTENTIONS OF THE LEAGUE.—The hostility of the League to the Church of the Aristocracy is perceptible in all the movements of the League and the free traders ; and, when the party is swollen with success and confident in its schemes, it never fails to threaten the landed in terest with the visitation of its wrath, should it dare to impede its march to empire. We have only to quote the speeches of its leaders to prove this intention. The aris tocracy will be levelled with the dust—the bishops will be driven from the House of Lords—the primogeniture will not. be permitted to exist in law. These are public threats already sent forth. Mr. Cobden wishes to make the House of Commons sensible of the power of the masses of population which he can command in the manu factories, and how far their strength exceeds that of the house, and the fate that will await that body, if it should presume to arrest its supreme will. " Had there been (says the demagogue) such an amount of public opinion as now exists in favour of the repeal of the Corn Laws in support of Charles Stuart, in 1745, the dynasty of the St . u . arts would now have occupied the throne Of these realms." " What is it (says Mr. Cobden) that will teach you to regard public opinion ? Must you be tossed in a blanket ? Must you be swept out of this house into the Thames ? What must be done to convince you that the feeling of the nation is not with you ?" WORTHY CONDUCT. The Messrs. Marshall, of Leeds, have issued a notice to their workmen which we think settles the short-time question. They communi cate their intention of reducing the hours of labour in their vast factory from 66 hours a week to 64, or eleven hours a day and nine on Saturday, without any diminution of their present rate of wages. In making this reduc tion, these gentlemen very candidly state the principle which guides them. They do not for a moment desire to have it regarded as a benevolent concession ; as an inten tion on their part to sacrifice the smallest particle of their profits to the workpeople. They distinctly state their po sitive conviction that the result will be exactly the same to them. All they say is. " you want your hours of work shortening ; we think it reasonable ; do exactly the same work for us in 64 hours a week for the same wages as you now do in 66, and we shall be quite content. You can do it if you will, by increased care and skill, of that we are convinced. Nothing can be more fair. It is manifest that if, on the same condition, their workpeople were to pro pose to work only one hour a week instead of 64. the Messrs. Marshall, if equally convinced of its possibility, would readily consent. The sole principle on which the proposed reduction of time, irrespective of any other cir cumstance, rests, is the capacity of the wo rkman to per form the same amount of work in a less time. It would, have been as easily applied a year ago as to-day.' THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ,ting-up of t and i enou JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.—At Hudderafield, on Tuesday last, Mr. George Beaumont, an extensive manufacturer, applied to the magistrates to cancel the indentures of Eliza Sykes, not quite twelve years of age, who had been put apprentice to him by the parish. It appearid that she had attempted to poison the whole family with arse nic, a quantity of which had been got into the house to destroy mice. The family were in the habit of using oat meal porridge for breakfast, and she had mixed some of the poisoned meal with that which they used. Two of the children, and one of the heads of the family, as well as the girl herself, were taken alarmingly ill after the meal. The prisoner had been urged to the act by being chastised for a fault by her mistress. She said she did not intend to kill them. The magistrates strongly reprobated such de pravity, and immediately cancelled the indentures. . , EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES.—Two extensive robberies were committed in Hull between Saturday night and Monday morning last. The shop of Mr. Gardener, of Queen-street, was entered, and an immense quantity of valuable property carried off, consisting of gold and silver watches, gold chains and jewels, brooches, diamond and other rings, 100 ounces of gold and silver, a quantity of plate pencil cases, and some silver snuff-bcxes. On Sun day night the shop of Mr. Isaac Daniel, a jeweller in the same street, was also entered, and a great number of watches, and other valuable property, was carried off. In the case of Mr. Daniel, the daring villains poisoned a large dog which was kept in the shop ; and in both cases they locked the shops up again after perpetrating the rob beries. The booty obtained from Mr. Daniel's premises amounted in value to about £l5OO to £2OOO ; and that front Mr Gardner's to not far short of the former sum. The thieves for the present have got clear off with their booty. DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS : EIGHTY LIVES LOST.— Two wrecks, accompanied by a mournful loss of human life, upwards of eighty persons having perished, were on Monday reported at Lloyd's, namely, that of the British barque Ida, 550 tons burthen, belonging to the port of London, and the John Mintura, an American-built ship of near the same tonnage, both lost while on outward bound voyages from their respective ports. The Ida was commissioned by Government for the conveyance of Go vernment stores for Canada, and sailed for St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 4th of January. There were on board, besides the crew, eighteen in number, including the master, Captain William Chamber, thirty-eight pas sengers. A letter, stated to be written by Mr. Sherwood, the British Consul at Portland, thus describes her loss : " On the 26th of January, being in lat. 44 N., lon. 52 30 W., the barque broached to, while scudding before a severe gale from S.S.E., and was thrown on her beam ends. The passengers and crew immediately rushed into the long-boat, to the number of forty-five. The land bore N.N.E., distant about thirty leagues. The boat got about two cable•lengths from the vessel, when she shipped a sea, filled, and all in her perished. The mate, nine men, and one young woman remained on the wreck, in the tops, from Monday morning until Friday, when they were taken off by the schooner Three Sisters, of Eden, where hey were landed much frozen, the mate being the only one able to travel." The John Mintura, of 500 tons burthen, bound to New York, with crew and passengers, numbering fifty-one souls, was within three days' sail of her destination, when, on the 14th of February, she struck with tremendous force. The captain, with his wife, son, daughter, servant, and cabin passengers, took refuge in the poop cabin. The long-boat was cast adrift and launched over the bows : five of the crew and a steer age passenger, a Portuguese, jumped into her. It is sup posed that the captain, his mate, and the pilot remained in the poop, for they were not seen afterwards, and i❑ the course of an hour the ship parted amidships, and the after-part drifted away into the sea. The remaining por tion of the wreck then floated considerably in shore. Those who were lashed to the forecastle instantly perish. ed. Between eleven and twelve o'clock at night a boat was put off to rescue those who were clinging to pieces of the wreck, consisting of two under mates, two of the crew, and four of the steerage passengers, and after almost insurmountable difficulties, they were preserved. In the remains of the forecastle sixteen bodies were found ; they laid in a cluster round the stump of the foremast. Among them could be recognised the captain's wife and children. DISCHARGED PRISONERS. —On Saturday week, a meeting was held at Willis' Rooms, London, to consider an appeal to parliament to carry out the humane object of establishing national houses of occupation and shelter for discharged prisoners. Mr. Sheriff Laurie presided. The chairman observed that Government expended £20,000 per year for the model priso❑ to reform convicts, and a proportionate sum for the institution at Parkhurst, but that there was no receptacle for those who were acquitted or released at the end of their sentences. Last year, in London, 1,500 persons were convicted and sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, and 600 acquitted : thus more than 2.000 persons were thrown upon the public in one year. During the same period, 26,000 persons were convicted in England and Wales, exclusive of those who were summarily convicted. He then alluded to the bene volent exertions of Mr. Wright, of Manchester, by whom, in four years, ninety-six of those who had been turned loose upon the country, with no resource but to commit further crime, had been reclaimed; but private exertions could not meet the evil. They ought to petition the Le gislature to provide employment for what might be termed the gaol population.—The Bishop of London thought that Government and the community ought to unite in promoting the reformation of criminals in the manner mentioned. It might be, however, that various considerations would prevent the Government from mov ing promptly in the matter; and, as delays were danger ous, he hoped to see private individuals taking it up zeal ously and effectively, and the results, he had no doubt, would convince the Government of the duty of co-opera ting. He was glad to observe that great improvements had of late years been effected in prison discipline ; and he bore testimony to the beneficial results of the systems acted upon at Penton vine and Parkhurst. Attached to most of the hospitals were " Samaritan Institutions," de signed to afford shelter and subsistence to poor persons discharged from hospitals, who were not sufficiently re covered to enable them to follow their usual avocations ; and he hoped to see like institutions for those who were discharged from prison.—Mr. Monkton Milnes, M.P., stated that there were similar societies in Boston, Phila delphia, and other towns in the United States, and they had been productive of the very best results. Mr. Alder man Sydney read a number of returns, which showed that the separate system in prison discipline had diminished crime wherever it had been adopted. In Liverpool, where the old system was still adhered to, the contrary was the. fact. A resolution was passed, that the expense of erect ing and maintaining the proposed establishments should be borne by the State, and a committee was appointed to communicate with the various corporations in the country. FREE TRADE AND REDUCED WAGES OF OUR SHIPWRIGHTS AND SAILORS. 0..1e of the strongest protestations of the advocates of a repeal of the corn law has ever been that it was not at all within their contemplation that it should be followed by reduction of the wages of the labourer. Yet con tinually the cloven foot of selfishness has crept out froni under the cloak of hypocrisy by which it was sought to be concealed. It seems that at last the time has arrived when no such concealment is necessary. The real object of the cheap bread mongers is avowed; and the British artisan may at once set about putting his house in order, and abandon the bright dream of inflated prosperity, with which his senses have been sought to be deluded. Let the shipwrights and seamen of this port weigh well the mean ing of the following remarks, which fell from Mr. Joseph Hume, during the debate of Friday night, upon the re duction of the timber duties : " In this country the construction of ships was more expensive by R 5 a ton than ou the continent; and a foreigner could build three ships with the same money with which an Englishman could build only two. The reduction of the timber duties would lessen the price of a ship's hull built in this country by one-half, or even perhaps two-thirds." The absurdity of Mr. Hume's calculation that the re duction of the price of timber only can reduce the cost of a ship's hull one-half or two-thirds, or that any reduction of duties upon materials used in its construction c - the cost of the entire ship by £5 a ton, is perfect) We must go therefore a little further to ascertain reduction of cost is to be attained. We have it y absurd following passage :—, "The disadvcintages under which the English shipowners la boured might be classed under four heads; first, the cost of the hull and rigging, which if this measure was adopted could be world ; secondly, the rate of wages, which would now be equalized; thirdly, the price of provisions, in which there would now be a considerable reduction; and, fourthly, the duties on insurance." 'The five or ten pounds per ton saving in construction are to be screwed out of the wages of the shipwright, the block maker, the roper, and other artizans employed, whose pay is to be equalized with the sour krout-eating artizans of Denmark, or Norway, Russia—men to whom a meal of tal low or refuse fat, at which the stomach of an Enelish dog would turn, is a luxury; and the hardy seamen who man our ships will doubtless have their wages " equalized" after the same fashion. llere are the blessings of free trade and a " cheap loaf !" _ YANKEE REPORTING An idea of the value, in Yankee estimation, of the eter nal talk which characterises the proceedings of their Con gress, may be formed from the fact that the press of Washington have ceased reporting the debates, which arduous task is about to be taken up by the Nfw York Morning Herald. As a S - ample of the mode in which it is performed at present, we give the following portionvof the report of a Mr. Hannegan, in which a speech of pro bably. as many hours as there are sentences is thus given : " He (Mr. H.) said he should proceed to the examination of the title to Oregon ; for, whatever might be the claims of Great Britain, she had not the title to an inch of the soil. He took up at once the task of proving this position. Humboldt, (1582) Spaniards discovered Oregon, Matte Brian, Quadra, Vancouver, Cook, Nootka Sound Convention, Meares, Count Florida Blanca, Fitzherbert, English diplomacy, dreadful swindling, Nootka Sound Convention—Treaty with France, 1795—Pitt, Fox, &c. Spain had not surrendeied her sovereignty over an inch of the soil." . . .What a vast quantity of paper and composition might be saved if we could only economise matters, after this fa shion, in our own country ! And how easily might we preserve the character for consistency of some of our statesmen. For instance, in reporting a speech of Sir Robert Peel, we might have—" Speech against Catholic Emancipation, 1828; speech in favour of same, 1829 ; speech in favour of protection, and against fixeal duty on corn, 1840; speech against protection, and in favour of free trade, 1846 ;—speech in favour of sliding scale, 1842 ; speech against, 1846 ;—speech, in 1842, guaranteeing in come tax for three years only; speech in 1845, imposing it for three year s longer ; and in 1846, imposing it in per. petuo. A world of tortuous reasoning it would save; and enable our backsliding Conservatives to ehine out before the world as paragons of virtue, consistency , and pa triotism. What a pity it is that the prurient curiosity of this world is not content with such notes of debate as serve the purpose of Brother Jonathan, and resolutely insist upon short-hand and verbatim reports! . UNIVERSITY 4 , CLERICAL NEWS. No appointment has yet been made to the vacant Bishopric of Jerusalem. The degree of Doctor of Laws has been conferred by the senate of the University of Glasgow on Charles Mac kay, Esq., author of " The Salamandrine," " The Legend of the Isles," and other poems. The Bishop of Calcutta had an audience of the Queen on Wednesday, to submit to her Majesty the ground plan and the perspective view of the Cathedral of St. Paul's, Calcutta, erecting by Colonel Forbes, of the Engineers. The Rev. Mr. Carter, one of the assistant masters of Eton, has just presented to the college a splendid stained glass window, representing the resurrection and ascension, the cost of which has amounted to £7OO. CHESTER CATHEDRAL.—Mr. George Haswell, marble and stone mason, of Chester, has received the order to execute the new pulpit for the cathedral, from a beautiful design by R. C. Hussey, Esq., architect, of Birmingham. The pulpit is to be constructed of the Painswick stone. The Greek Patriarch of Constantinople has issued a pastoral letter, in which he enjoins Greek parents to with draw their children from Catholic and Protestant schools, and intimates that their education should be exclusively confided to the clergy of their own religious persuasion. The Bishop of Chester had an address presented to him, last week, from the clergy of his diocese, conveying their most heartfelt and sincere congratulations on his lordship's happy and providential recovery from his recent severe and alarming illness." A meeting was held on Tuesday, in the Mansion-house, London, with the view of devising means to encourage the spread of public worship and religious instruction in the Colonies, with especial reference to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The Bishops of London and Jamaica, and Lord John Russell, were amongst the speakers. It was determined to commence a subscription in connection with the society. Another very important decision has been given by the Court of Session against the Free Secession, and in favour of the Established Church. The action was raised on the point—whether the Society for Propagating Chris tian Knowledge, instituted about the beginning of the last century, must necessarily be in connexion with the Church of Scotland, and the Court has decided unani mously in the affirmative.—Edinburgh paper. THE EXPECTANT BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—The Rev. Moses Belson, the expectant Bishop of Jerusalem was a German Jew, formerly well-known in Exeter, where he worked as a journeyman saddler. He had arrived in that city, travell►ng—as is the custom with young German me chanics—in search of improvement and experience, and, having a desire to enquire into the authenticity of Chris tianity, received the cordial assistance of the late Mr. Sloman, and Mr. Grove, the dentist. He was baptized, and subsequently returning to his own country became a distinguished divine, and will probably be selected by the King of Prussia to succeed Bishop Alexander. ST. CATHERINE'S CHURCH, BLACKROD.-With plea sure we record the appointment of the Rev. Peter Brown, M.A formerly curate, to the incumbency of the above church, by the Rev. the Vicar of Bolton, which appoint ment was confirmed this week, by our venerable diocesan. Never did we more strongly accord in the propriety of an appointment than we do in this. The rev, gentleman has for some time during the illness of the late respected incum bent performed the whole of the duties; and it falls to the lot of very few to obtain so good a name as the rev. gen tleman enjoys from the whole of the neighbourhood—which it gives us pleasure to say has been obtained by his assi duous attention to the discharge of the duties of his office. His zeal in the cause of his Master is great—his desire for the temporal and spiritual welfare of the neighbourhood burns with intensity; and we have no doubt the Rev. the Vicar, who has in such a disinterested and praiseworthy manner made the appointment, will, in after years, have much cause for congratulation.—Bolton Chronicle. [Mr. Brown was formerly curate of Christ Church, in this tow n.-1 LAW INTELLIGENCE. LANCASHIRE EASTER QUARTER SESSIONS.—These sessions will be held as follows : —At Lancaster, on Monday April 6 ; at Preston, Wednesday, April 8 ; at Salford, Monday, April 13; Kirkdale, Wednesday, April 22. At a numerous assembly of the Oxford Circuit bar mess, on Wednesday, tke resolution against reporting was res cinded by a very large majority. At Cambridge Assizes, the Rev. M. A. Gathercole brought an action against Mr. Miall, proprietor of the Nonc:informist newspaper, for a libel published in that pa per on the 7th of January, in which the plaintiff was charged with simony, and designated as " the notorious Gathercole," " the apostate Gathercole," and a " twice convicted libeller." The jury found for the plaintiff da- mages £2OO. ENGINEERING SCIENCE IN LIVERPOOL One might naturally expect, that a town like this, with the immense revenue which it has raised from time to time for the purposes of improving its thoroughfares and public buildings, would long ago have had under its pay something like moderate engineering talent. The state of some of our principal streets, however, gives lamenta ble evidence of the destitution of our authorities in this particular. In no large town in the United Kingdom, we venture to say, would such an inconvenient and abso lutely dangerous obstruction be permitted to exist for a week, as that presented by the present angular canal bridge in Old Hall-street. It would scarcely be tolerated upon an ordinary township road ; yet it remains upon one of our greatest thoroughfares, with about six omnibuses crossing it every half your, innumerable coaches, and a mass of heavy traffic passing to and from our north docks, almost incalculable in extent. By a very trifling outlay, comvaratisely to the importance of the improvement, the crown of the arch might be lowered at least a foot, with out the slightest encroachment from the canal to the top of the arch. The substitution of iron for the present cld fashioned stone monstrosity is all that would be required. How long are we to wait for this and similar practicable and common sense improvements? CONFIDENCE IN THE PREMIER THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT. In the course of December last, when it appeared un certain whether Sir Robert Peel would continue in office or not, some indiscreet friend of the right hon. baronet's, as we are informed by the Herald, called together, at the London Tavern, a party of twenty or thirty of the first men in the city, and submitted to them a proposal, that they should adopt, and propose for general signature, an address to the Premier, earnestly beseeching him to con tinue to guide the helm of the state, and expressing the greatest confidence in his character and principles. When the proposition had been laid before the meet ing, the gentlemen present stared at each other, and re mained silent. At last one of the oldest and most emi nent merchants that England or Europe knows, drily said :-" As we are to express our confidence in Sir Ro bert Peel's principles, perhaps some gentleman will have the goodness to explain what Sir Robert Peel's princi ples are." Another silence followed, when the same old gentleman said, " Well, if nobody has anything to. say, I think we had better go." And accordingly, in less ,than two mi minutes, the room was evacuated ! This was before the grand disclosure of January 22. It merely showed the state of doubt and distrust which arose out of December's doings. January turned this doubt into certainty; and in that month one of the par ties present at the meeting above described, said of Sir Robert Peel, " Sir, in such a man's hands, nothing is safe !" There is no use in attempting to blind our eyes to this appalling fact. We are on a quicksand. The abandon ment of the corn laws is merely a symptom of that inse curity which pervades every thing. In such a man's hands, nothing is safe ! It is, therefore, without surprise that we read such pa ragraphs as these in the country paper;— _ "No doubt whatever exists in the best-informed circles, that n understanding has been come to between the Whigs on the reduction of the Protestant, and t testant Church is to be The revenues saved made a congregational eqablishment he paris: here are no testant congregations, are to be applied for the support of manses and glebes for. the Roman Catholic Church—vitwed also as a congregational establishment. The plan is that adopted by Na poleon in France—where, wherever a congregation is formed, an endowment, as a matter of course, is given by the Govern- meat." '—Glasgow National, We shall not pretend to any exclusive knowledge in this matter. All we can say is, that after the utter abandon ment of all former professions, which the last six weeks have exhibited, it ought to be no matter of surprise, if a pseudo Conservative Government should be found, in May, 1846, proposing the old Lichfield House appropriation clause ! There is something suspicious, too, in Lord J. Russell's recent notice—most civilly withdrawn when it appeared likely to embarrass the ministry,—of a motion which would introduce the whole question of Irish affairs. This notice was not given in concert with his own friends; for it ex cited their alarm. Was it in concert with any other per sons, and if so—with whom ? PRESIDENT POLK'S LEVEE An American levee must be a funny thing in its way, as different from a Royal levee or Drawing-room in this country, as a hop in a seven dial's lodging-house is to Almack's. A few passages from the description of such a scene, given in the New York Herald of the 214 t ultimo, may amuse our readers. First, the picture of the officials is particularly American. " The Lords in Waiting con sisted of a rough marine in uniform, and a policeman, who, true to their vocation, and rigidly adhering to the word of command, kept the doors closed, refusing admis sion to some of the Company, who endeavoured to effect an entrance some few minutes before the annointed hour. and rudely removed them outside the dooii, stating they should keep ' strictly to orders.'" Nor does the company appear to hkye been very unworthy of such " Lords in Waiting." - Our contemporary says " At the appointed hour the and in a short time the rooms v " motley company began to arrive, re filled up with a _ group," from the refined and chastely attired consort of the foreign ambassador, down to the more at tractive and fripperied tailoress, whose head-dress, (a scarlet merino turban, decorated with glass beads and bu gles,) shone conspicuously amid the " glittering throng." The tout ensemble, to a foreign courtier conversant with the machinery of the entire movement, must appear some what strange, from the general style of dress and the eti quette that prevailed." Amongst those present we observe "four rough-looking backwoodsmen—jolly farmers, dressed in grey frieze, some with top coats, and others with smock-frocks;" and the ladies do not exhibit, as a whole, much more propriety in their attire. " Some wore plain shawls, plain muslin gowns, coarse boots and shoes, and appeared in undress- Others were rather pass, in visiting dresses, whilst the re maining part of the company went to the opposite ex. March 2i, 184 g. treme." The " beautiful Miss M., of Ohio," is reP ro. sented as dressed in " lig bt blue satin dress, short sleevest hair beautifully braided and bound up in a large fillet re sembling a crown, style very becoming ;" whilst Mrs. lel' is des cribed to have worn " coarse stuff gown, red , s tre e t walking boots, muslin cap." We have Mr. Dixon, M.‘-"' black body coat, white vest, hat in hand, while esc ortu l gs lady en promenade," —a perf ec t A mer ican dandy, hilst Mr. W. is content to figure in " brown shooting lac ke pegged boots, with strong walking-cane," and, to copi: plete the character, doubtless a quid. The band to !hie° this strange assortment of additions were doomed to listen, t the chronicler informs us, " would not do commo n l u tee to a menagerie." 3irtljs, Alarriages anTi 1341tb1• .-..10.---- BIRTHS. On the 13th instant, at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, FLETCHER, of a son. Same day, at the School-house, Rugby, the wife of the B el ' Dr. TAIT, of a daughter. OVS I/ ' Same day, at Hingham, the Lady El INOR WODEII of a son. Same day, at Belmont, Cheshire, the wife of JAMES 11 ' LEIGH, Esq., of a son. of On the 16th instant, the wife of GORDON GRANT, Esq" a son Same day, at the Cove of Cork, the lady of Captain WILLVai MOSS, of a son. On the li,th instant, at Claremont, West Derby, the Wif e °C T. LITTLEDALE, jun., Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. ile On the 4th instant, at the Ch urc h o f St. B a rrabaS, t us Rev. Thomas Nolan, Captain ADAM J. BRAY, of the ba r qk Elizabeth Jane, to MARY, daughter of the late Mr. 1. • BURDER, of Whitby, Yorkshire. e. On the 12th instant, at the Parish Church of Frodshan t , o ,, shire, by the Rev. T. R. Hall, vicar, WILLIAM TAYLOR , te, of Eden Vale. in the county of Wexford, and of Dolphins - Pr f l„ Dublin, to SARAH, third daughter of WILLIAM CALDVVI — Esq., of the former place. Same day, at St. James's Church, Paddington, by the_,.. l H. Beamish, Captain AUGUSTUS DE BUTTS, of the 1 411 .,7ti, Engineers, eldest son of Lieut.-General Sir August us De r': n if R.E., K.C.FL, to HANNAH GEORGIANA ELIZABETI I . ' o p daughter of Rear-Admiral INGLEFIELD, commas in-chief south-east coast of America. bi t b. On the 14th instant, at Trinity Church, Birkenhead , to Baylee, Mr. HULLAND, Egginton, Derbyshire , 4 MARY, eldest daughter of the late Mr. HUGHES, of Kel stc l ' near Llanasa, a im On the 16th instant, at St. Philip's Ch urc h, b y th e Rev. '',: tg e Townsend, Mr. CHARLES M'GREGOR, t o ELLEN, daag" of the late Mr. GEORGE BEVAN, painter. sp. Same day, at St. Michael's Chur c h, T ox t e th-p a rk, ." ot WARD BROOK to ELLEN ELIZABETH, second daugh Mr B. R. EVANS, 39 , Bridgewater. street. ntiff• Same day, at the British Embassy, Paris, JAMES .. 1 5 Esq., M.P., son of General Sir Alexander Duff, to Lady AG' Ld GEORGINA HAY, second daughter of the Earl and Conn . " - of Erroll. e DJr Same day, at Hove, near Brighton, by the Rev. Walter K o f the Hon. ARTHUR SCHOMBERG KERR, youngest son p to the late Vice-Admiral Lord Mark Kerr and Charlotte Countess of Antrim, to AGNES STEUART, your gest daugu.;„, of J. H. FRANKLAND, Esq , of Eashing Hons.-, in the c on. "' of Surrey 1. J• Same day, at Marchweil, near Wrexham, by the Rev. -,• more, rector, Mr. AMBROSE BROOKS STEVENSON, 0 ; pas, eldest son of Mr. B. Stevenson, farmer, to Miss EL I BETH ELLIS, third daughter of Mrs. Ellis, of the former % q ,, On the 18th instant, at Newbury, T. F. HEMINGTON,-.0, to JANE, only daughter of Mrs. ROBERTS, o f Cope . . Berkshire, lat , of Everton. bn Same day, at St. Mary's Church, Leicester, by the Rev. -° 4O Moore, FRANCIS RAMP, Esq., of Birkenhead soicito r lof ELIZABETH SUSANNAH LEACH, third d aug hter of . 11° MOORE, Esq., of Leicester. the' On the Iyth instant, at St. Mary's Ch urc h, Walton-on' Hill, by the Rcv. J. Lindley, C. F. CLEMENTS, Esq., dt of town, to MARGARET, daughter of JAMES ORME, BO' Bootle. B. o ol* Same day, at St. George's Church, by the Rev. Henry tO J Mr. JOHN DEAL, son of Joseph Deal, Esq., of Greenivi c cie r ELLEN, eldest daughter of Mr. W. C. WILKINSON, of St. George's Church. lii Same day, at Christ Church, by the Rev. Fielding On! , R. B. LUCAS, draper, of this town, to Miss MARG: mc g. BLOCKLEY, youngest daughter of the late Mr. John P'" - ley, of Ulleshorp e, in the ounty of Lecester TO vnig: Same day tat St. Philip's c Church, by i the Rev. R. L. end, Mr. ROBERT JONES, watch maker, to Miss CHRIS T. LOUISA QUAYLE. On the 20th instant, at St. Barnabas's Church, by the Iteo Nolan, Mr. JOHN MORRIS, of Oswestry, Salop, to Miss !SP' ANN THOMAS, of this town. On the DIED. 27th ultimo, at Palermo, JOHN VIANNA, Es4•' this town. Same day, on board the ship Inglewood, off the ~e- 0. Islands, on his voyage from China, GEORGE, son of FOST thER, of Pomona-street. V‘ oDS, On e 2nd instant, aged 27 years, Mr. THOMAS ? ',,,tDS bookkeeper at Woolton Mills, and D e p u ty- R eg i s trar of , A6I. ard Deaths for the Woolton district. He was much cstee'reif by his friends and acquaintanc e s, an d hi s l oss is since 24, CHRISTOPHER deplored. On the 9th instant, at Lancaster, aged son of Captain JOHN HOGARTH. t, Same day, at the house of her brother, in Russell-Etr ee her 25th year, ELLEN JEFFREYS. reli t Same day, at Hamstead, in her Oth year, Mrs. SALE , of the late Captain G. Sale, of Bristol. gr• On the lath instant, at Stewarton, Kirke°lm, aged 9-, ALEXANDER DAVIDSON. On the 12th instant, MARY ELIZABETH ADAMS , child of Mr. R. SHALLCROSS. Same day, aged 61, Mr. DAVID JONES. gr. °. Same Gay, aged SI, FRANCES, wid ow of the late COQ ALDERSON, and mother of Mr. W. Alderson, currier , _ mouth, formerly of Preston, one of the Society of Frieuda;,. / 0. On the 13th instant, aged 45, Mr. JAMES OFFICER WP HALL, of Union-street. , g r. Same day, at the Lincoln Union-house, in his 100th Ye ar HENRY for On the 54th instant, at Leamington, whither he had WI, anrto:lo the benefit of his health, GEORG E J A CSON , E s u.. 0. of the house - lodge, near Preston, and one of the partners ,t,ion. Mt' Ilorrocks. Jacson and Co. ,of Mancheste•.-" 1 ;h. Jacson Jacson's health had been for so me t i me declining' ffew vesul of the borough of Prest o n, an" , He was a gentleman was an ago served the office of mayor sally respected. ear ° ~ aged 72, Mr. FAIR, o f B o ld, fora number 0 f .4 t ot the confidential agent of Sir H. B. H og ht on, Bart., of n o ' Hoghton Tower. Same as: Jay, at London, aged 93, Mrs. HOLBROOK. OAO' J e 15th instant, aged 40, ANN,! wife of Mr. . _ On tl GREAT ler, Rainford et, Lon aged 39, JANE Doll°. Same day, in Park-stre THEA, Lady METHUEN. o f ft O❑ the itth instant, axed 5 months, WILLIAM, so" SORLEY, Esq., M.D., of Upper Parliament-0— Same day, at the Hermitage, Nestor of the late T. DOW, Esa. , rel o rvIAR n, aged ged 42, ANNE, daughter of gr. Same day, at Rock Ferry, J. WITIINELL, of Chorley. 0 6er► Same day, aged 30, Mr. PETER EATON 'WRIGHT, Same day, aged 58, Mr. JOSEPH JAMESON. esti.; On the 17th instant, at the residence of his father, PT ' s!l l street, after a long and painful illness, GEORGE 14 „ o rr d MONDAY, aged 38 years, late of H.M. Custo ms , at this ' On the 16th instant, at Neston Cheshire, aged 48, M. J J9C A LANGAN, more familiarly styled and bette r k no wn es Langan," the pugil st. Jack was born at a place calle. island, near Dublin, in the year of the Irish rebellion, 1 71,%10c 6 ., the age of twenty-one, his first pugilistic enco un t e r tanfie 9 at the Curragh of 'Kildare, on the 20th o f M ay , 1819. 7Pr,i fought a man named M'Gowran, and aft er 3 5 roun ds. vcoS. n ing 137 minutes, Jack was declared the stctor. fight of any note was with Pat Halton ; b, t it ended iecioe parties being drawn, and, of course, in neither being d , s e Tir e6 6 s i the winner.. He fought and beat Mat Weeping, tdi es °lit e ° at Buxton, in Derbyshire, on the 36th April, 1823. The 190 between him and Spring came off at Worcester, fo r yl e f aside, on the 7th January, 1834. After 77 rounds, oc`„d co"; 140 minutes, Spring was declared the victor.• The see?,, pea test between him and Spring came off at BirdliaM•br i ":,:, 1 0 4 Chichester, for £5OO aside, on the Bth June, the same sui ng vfri; After 77 rounds again, occupying 168 minutes, SPr'otli% once more the victor. This was Jack's last public (p c e peD He repaired at once to this town, and immediately °p idera~ public house in Whitechapel, in which he made no inC ° b ollt o h ble amount of money. In some time afterwards b e ~til ' O C public house at .the Clarence Dock, which he held t c y tti • —ath, and there he realised such immense sums of laie" or clis:a - "it only able to bring up a large family, but to P a ve _Pj ) near Neston, for .e5OOO, and tu 'e t i s o'^ - tween £20,000 and £30,010. t . . n ot4 after a pro c tr o remains were nveyed to Ireland for Inie r f f - p4O acted illness, ELIZABE TH eldest daughter of WILLIAM STANLEY ROSCOE, ,A children a sum of request his Same day of this town Same day, dauglllg ( .1 ri; d 7 years and 3 months ROO ST a month BROCE ariner, a native cf Sc Aland at his residence in Parr-street, aged EDWARD, warehouseman _ . . Same day, aged 46, Mr. JOHN G. SMITH, bo, ationer. __ wife of Mr is, of her M r .GASI ' ars• ELIZABETH Vl7l‘-- noo" Li.r.,Vcier6l;* Same day, aged 74, ANNE, rel , ct of the late VO Esq., of Birkenhead_ Same day. 2- ged 73, Mr. THOMAS BROOKFIELD• f lot aged 26, AMELIA CAROLINE, wife 0 Same day. ALSOP, of Gm - ye-stret. On the Igth instant, e of hooping cough, in his 4tll , 1" VAN, - TATE, youngest son of the late Mr. A. F. DO lsu Wilton-street. ALEXANDER. inf 4 nt son of WALTER f. ISAC' O f __.... —see. ' • " •-r aged 46, Mr. WILLIAM TAYLOR , 0 . 0 0 Taylor and Routledge, builders, Lower Tranmere• jr J, R ., e plY Same day, MARY DIXON, relict of the late pt , de Dixon, cabinet and chair maker, late of Byrom -stre- . f ee! , On the 20th instant, at her residence, in regretted by all who knew her. • 5 00. 5 e - P' Bu skis tj op aged 75, CORDELIA, relict of the late ' JOHN 5° 1' 1, near Birmingham. Vbit es l stil lged 49, Mr. WILLIAM SHEPHERD , „kele 'ter a painful and protracted illness , '' el JAMES GIRVIN; Esq., of this tovv , ?.; , c ot:1 0 aged 11 months, EDWA RD son of Mr. JAMES NORRIS, printer, Price-street. GREGOR:Esq., ofl q., Of Sohc Same day, year of his at On the 93rd instant trs l A us Of The population of Russia is 63,000,000, that 0. dello 73,000,000, and that of Prussia 16,000,000, indePea-oeie of the population of the different provinces of Poland. i ri cl ° o AUSTRALIAN WOOING.—On making up his r' t to e d C the object of his choice, he proceeds by nig' ) ber t o ..w.ground of the fair one's tribe; searelle!, 0 0,, ...fling beauties ; deals her a I 'loo ''te --'hick an Irishrnan't.s.b,,lole_tellopti among t Jff the stunned and se.. This ceremony ma k e s tht% et' Ir. .110,1 wile, and no further notice is taken of the 8 . 8 " i s rw o p THE EFFECT OF HABlT.—Ellen ' s stay in l a dy Vi o l' ervice was not of long duration ; for nsY .lan d o f the L i be ( - ' " , —was dying. A fr'exh le pt 0 . 1 , i ,, $54 and carries was taken sud , lovr° I- "j hronght - had ao' - Kt she has env, ,,o, but the intelligen da c .sis's conillicrao oree:to er e • sith ol o itlJ This went on .fc r ow "' o f ..cio;and Ellen seemed L°..„ e 'be 4 0 displaying itdesnhsetes:senanigntedhsa,atudtnednteteriaoennedtivsyeio:nd,rtliwes: ossroPdto compliments l mistress came as before, poor Ellen came to l o t to etr' swollen eyes streaming with tears, andsobbe „ pc i 00 p s9 lancholy answer, " my missis's compent%:: olio &A l poor ingeityweerfteesretnbte b b : e 7t ; 0 t . 2 1 :e: this morning at eight o'clock." Herein etc tb. gr its close neighbourhood.—Lamar -AriggF"' from Life. osen awn"n g deray7wmhee.n The is's com ght;': or "-ATT-n? Ze al P Joh Rjo for Lo n , ly re , clo n , zae, 1 , ; i ot rn a to.da SA] or m 1:)r Ii 4,011 a Flo G 1 Chp 14th A R , fro, •fro m ElLarp k)ri tlSt `', ll l tk tr,'l tije4, fin )4 1 t o ) 4, 44 Q11, )44Z' 4'll e, e. 1,. I),!tia sl, t ato ‘ip t el % l 1 3 4 N th kir V tt i Y4ter . l'4l4ilS lid sent twice E she had sat up indifferel she feels twice a d sensible of the I