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tarraturr. ()TICE London The object of to advance th Burnside iter of the poem before u Evangelical Alliance. em o induce al to unite an effort ion amc With the feasi toduction as subject of tb! Mr. Brom. of his work, to r 1 he terms the big( st mankind usbess is with the way in which the a], and ,t the commencement :cial, receiv SECOND EDITION. IVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—THis There was less animation at our market this morning r iour a limited business done for consump tion, at prices rather lower than this day week. Oats and Oatmeal are also cheaper, and bonded Flour but little inquired for, either in store or On the passage. Indian C '4 to-day, %'heat and 1315 4421 I 8! 1 2-359 :9162 17300 364 2 jog of a castigation of what with which variot 1, in doing nimated towards each other ts. Popery, in es 'ct s are very sparing tenderness at t Episcopacy - very little latter, certainly does not seem o t likely to conciliate matters, or G bring about union desired apreme Rapt in A bird c th well feathered claws, She crows o'er al' conventicle jackdaws Prompt to transfix. with talon-tests, and laws A lordly ruff' encompasses her ,:celc. Her mons Her pomp sinecures is stuffed, down and mitre coifed; : little to her toes, Crane like. she look: The curates, though them her reverence goes A cuckoo wiz That rounUela hers 'neath her winos; of Rowe devoutly sings, ently hatches in her nest A brood tt t her author' kat with lips c Strange I ;y things which speak, honk! seek : Puseyites the pay of Strange ! that their To those nother gii es bed and board ) 'gainst her whet their traitor sword!" The Baptist, toe, has a rude hit administered in Stanza XVI. : A fowl domestic waddles o'er the ground, Which ne',r is right, till half in water drowned; Not f the genus goose, and yrt allied, A strange embodiment of humble pride; If as a duckling wetted, 't will not do, The full grown duck must get .i ducking too ; As if the sien of grace forbidden were To babes, who grace confessedly may share I" Some other passages, in which the writer describes the state of things to arise when the union of Christians is effected, are written in a much better spirit and are in good taste. The following is one of those to which we refer : " But let thy medi'ative eye alight, And one so'e spot arrest thy stelfast sight; Lownn ! Britannia's glory ann disgrace, Shouldst thou be crowned the Capital of grace, Thy teeming streets, thy squares of dusty green, (Each in itself a town and rural scene,) Thy monuments of vast masonic art, Thy river highway, and thy monied mart, Thy giant bridges. that their isthmus stretch, An. , fleets that of the world the commerce fetch, Might all remain : But Mai , mysterious Man— Bounnless as space, yet bounded as a span— A seed the sport of every wind that blows, And yet the tree immortally that grows; Plaything of Time, experimental gem— Or spurned as dross, or set in egad, sri— Ah ! what the change that would transfigure Thee, Wert thou with Scripture's second sight to see! No more would counters, spread with rich and rare, Furnish of Va ity the gaudy lair; No more would Luxury's ignoble skill Larders and cellars with its dainties fill, Nor helpless Art (like st earns that cannot rise Above the source in which their birth-place lies) Chisel her marble, or her colours m.x, And vainly strive the Beautiful to fix ; Nor Intellect her God-like powers employ, To frame a law-suit, or to mend a toy ; Nor Poesy her magic lantern trim. To paint a butterfly, or sketch a whim ; Nor Music of the heart each fibre thrill, With fancies—fairy harbingers of ill; Nor Eloquence, with wild .ZEodan note, Grandiloquent o'er straws and air-bells float ; Nor trifling Legislation condescend To vote a nuisance, or a highway mend. Oh no I Were Christ king or all hearts, each rule Supreme would issue from his rightful school, And Parliaments and Judges only meet, To seat them at His equitable feet; And 110011 S now spent in barter's lawful game, And nights which wallow in lascivious shame, Serene as heaven. woulii pass in praise and prayer, tlatinn hush the hallowed air, to Jehovah's coon lead on, ion give the duteous tone; knd g- , rgeous pageantry, all out of date, Or cease, or on the King of Glory wait3l • And nobles humble as the poor redeemed, The poor, aristocrats of grace esteemed. Would with one heart the Lamb enthroned proclaim, (Their o I strife who best show a bless his name; Ah London I then no Babylon wert Thou But nuptial New Jerusalem b low Thy husband, Nature': Obeyed with zeal. will And Conte' And Fashic And to Dew Revelation's Lord, :cstAsy adored !" With a few exc ptions the style is easy and flowing, and suited to tiie subje t treated VARIETIES. A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—The only persons ob- ing proficiency. The Latin tongue became the sole ob jected to for the borough of Bewdley, as not entitled to ject of her thoughts and the one great occupation of her have their names retained in the list of voters for the life. Her favourite amusement was to turn into Latin western division of the county of Worcester, are Benja- whatever she thought and heard. The boys of the class, min Halfpenny, of Mamble. and William Penny, of at her request, looked out the words she wanted in the Hawthorn Bush, Bewdley. • dictionary, and the schoolmaster was ever ready to ex- PHYSICAL FORCE.—A. poor Welsh miner, who had plain and elucidate such difficulties as occurred to her, been induced to join a riot, when under examination be- and thus, by a repetition of these exercises, and the con fore the magistrates at Newport, repeatedly exclaimed as centration of vigorous intellectual powers. not disturbed follows 1 spur never for vissikful force." Being in their labour by the sense most easily wtracted by ex asked to explain himself, he replied—" Why, zur, I never ternal impressions, the Latin language ended by becoming the habitual medium of the blind girl's reasoning —the readiest vehicle for the expression of her thoughts. Thus, as she herself says, she thinks in Latin, " et quod tents bat dicere (to adopt her own expression) Latinum crat." On two occasions the writer has been witness to the uncommon proficiency of this young person in this her favourite study. A traveller having asked her if she knew where Cadiz was, she replied, " Credo super His palern ;" and upon the questioner expressing a doubt of the correctness of the preposition super, as applied in the sense beyond, she answered without hesitation, " Recte dixi, nam Virgilius foster, super Aeramantas." On an other occasion, speaking of a diligence, she explained with the greatest ease the synonymes, quad riga,. vehicu lum, and curriculum. Once the human mind is opened to ideas beyond the common routine of life, it seldom happens that it is con fined within a narrow circle, find that a noble ambition is not awakened to enlarge the sphere of acquired know ledge. I have heard the blind girl exclaim with the ac cent of real passion, " 0 libri ! libri! quis dabit mihi libros ?" Her poverty and the well-known de firth of the means of instruction in the interior of Spain deprive her of all those resources which might contribute to her no ble aspirations. However, not long ago accident threw in her way a few historical works, and she has devoted herself with enthusiasm to this new branch of study. A boy of the town reads aloud to her, and thus she learns. She is in the habit of sharing with those who do her this important service the alms she collects from travellers. wur vor pysonin urn ! NATURAL ALAttliM.—To those who wish to rise early during the summer months, the following plan is worth their attention :—Go into your garden in the dusk of the evening, and pick a flower in which a dumbledore has taken up its night's lodging, place it near your chamber window previous to going to bed. Soon after sunrise, the insect will commence a very loud tune on its trumpet, at the same time beating its wings against the glass in endeavouring to escape. This will soon awake you ; when you get out of bed, open the window, let your living alarucn fly, and proceed to apparel yourself. HOME AND FOREU•N MARKETS.—IR England 27 per cent. duty was called monopoly; but the same persons who raised this cry her., called a 30 per cent. duty in America " Free Trade." There the manufactures of Coventry, Nuneaton, and Birmingham, had to pay one third of their value to Uncle Sam and Brother Jonathan in the shape of taxes; and he wanted to know why the produce of the waves and prairies of Uncle Sam and Brother Jonathan should not pay a share of our taxes here ? He wa no advoc-ne of prohibition, but he wished to make the foreigners who sent their produce here pay if portion of the taxes. Sir Robert Peel wished the people of this country to receive the pro.luce of other nations free of duty, that they might have them at a low cost, yet he had no objection to levy high taxes upon the produce of this country,—on malt, on spiritA, on salt, and on the light of heaven. But Sir Robert Peel's sympathies lay not in the direction of this country but in that of foreign ones. It had been proved in the case of timber and sugar, that a remission of duty caused the price to rise abroad, and the foreigner got the benefit. When the duties were remitted here on leather, on salt, and glass, the parties concerned in the produce and manufacture of ttose articles shared in the bent fit which did not all go to the consu mer; but thy were our countrymen, and he did not ob ject to their sharing in the gains. He thought the proper FORGIVENESS.—When misunderstanding and con strained intercourse arise between friends, or between members of a family, they seldom pass without a crisis, and an explanation; but these are dangerous moments of revolution, and for once that they wrench out the wound ing thorn, it happens thrice that they press it in the deeper. Ah, why do we find it so difficult freely to for give, freely to forget ? We nourish our wrong ; we medi tate upon it. we desire to have some right, some recom pense, and thus warm the serpent's egg in our bosoms. Blessed are the peace makers ! Blessed are the good, who forget, who forgive, even without thinking. " I forgive !" —Mary Howitt. CATs.—There are four distinct races of cats; namely, the tabby, which includes the black cats, and which is nearest allied to the wild kinds ; the tortoise-shell cat which came originally from Spain, and the males of which are buff, with stripes of a darker hue; the white and light coloured cats, which have reddish eyes end a greyish tint mode of remitting taxes was to remit those which Pressed upon our people and not these which pressed upon fo reigners, that our countrymen and not foreigners might receive the benefit.—Lord George Bentinck's Speech. SKETCH OF JOHN CUNNINGHAM, THE POET.—John Cunningham was born in Dublin, some lime in the year 1729, and was the eldest of r,even children. Nursed and bred in the lap of poverty, hi= father became suddenly af fluent by a prize in the English Intl ery of £l2OO. On this he set up as a wine-merchant, spent the whole of the sum. and figured in a short time among the list of bankrupts. ere first rudiments Of education he mar-school of Drogheda, and had and the Angora cats, which are quite distinct from all others, and are known by their long fur. The tailless cats of Cornwall and the Isle of Man belong to the Chartreuse breed, and they are the ugliest of their kind, as the Angora ceived rued to r little French, to his own home, h irn, as it has dri- cold, wW6) generally gets well without any particular care being taken of it; but when they have any serious disease it generally proves fatal.—Mrs. Loudon. . . f authorship, and, at the Dublin Theatre a two- from which Garrick is sail to have borrowed the plot of " The Lying Vah-t." " The Los of Spirit" was favour ably received. bad a run of several nights, and procured its author, if riot somethir , more substantial, at least the freedom of the theatre. Here he became acquainted with " stateliest city" in the New World. Its plan was laid, and the principal portion of its public buildings are said to have been designed by Cortes. They bear all the im press of a superb mind. The habitual meanness of de mocratical building has no place there; the majority of the fabrics were evidently constructed by a man to whom actors and with anti i,i,a k his tp,rn rt the imitative —a step which Ritson says he repented t.f, and joining the company of an itine rant manager, crossed into England, and added the cha racter of the strolling player to that of the poor poet. This sort of unsettled lite he must have led for some twenty years prior to the oublication of his poems. What vicis situdes of fortune he p-ssed through in this long career of strolling, who shall say ? Now in mirth, now in sorrow, now in plenitude, now in .poverty ; the companion of the the royal architecture of the European nations was familiar and the finest houses in the city are still inhabited by the descendants of the conqueror. The principal square is the pride of the Mexicans, and the admiration of travel lers. It has an area of twelve acres; unluckily, this fine space, which in England would be covered with verdant turf, shrubs, and flowers, is covered with pavement. But the buildings are on a noble scale. The Cathedral fills bandit d in body and in mind. is has preserved will shew the at tiMrs reduced. Burns had it r, who knew Cunningham well, " A fat dignitary of the church," 4 II lta• emn i n g past Cunningham one Sunday, as . • sites of both are memorable and historical;, the Cathedral standing on the ground where once stood the great idol temple, and the Palace on the ground of the palace of Montezuma! The latter building is 500 feet long, and contains the public offices, besides the apartments of the President. The Cathedral is of strikino. Gothic architec ture, and after all the pressures and plunderings of the later period, still retains immense wealth. The high altar is covered with plates of silver, interspersed with orna ments of massive gold. This altar is enclosed with a balustrade one hundred feet long not less precious than the high altar itself. It is composed of an amalgam of gold, silver, and copper, richly flourished and figured. It is said that an offer has ben made to purchase it at its weight in silver, giving half a million of dollars besides. Of this balustrade there are not less than 300 feet. Sta tues, vases, and huge candlesticks of the precious metals, meet the eye every where ; and yet it is said that the still A story which phew Sr. Woods, a r rod in some stream near everence reprimandrd him severely for such ,„ curb a day. The poor poet, with that busy p n. his r its fist: es.; of r which was his peculiar characteristic, replied, that he hoped God and his rever ence would forgive his seeming praanation of that sacred day, as he had no dinner to eat but what lay at the bottom of that pool." His engag-rnenis never led him as far as London, but he was a tav, , urire in the north, and, it is be lieved, deservedly so. At Edinburgh, however, he fre quently acted ; and here he beea-ne acquainted with Robert r ergus4on, " the writer chid," and lively poet, at whose ningham waamodest,atid his fii , nds, happily too judi cious, did not buoy him up with fal-e bladders of impro per praise. Ritson. the antiquary. who knew him well, ates that he was unequalled as a Frenchman, and good I re ,em er him." adds Ritson, popular eye. The streets are wide, and cross each other at right angles, dividing the whole city into squares. But the Romish habit of giving the most sacred names to com mon things, is acted on in Mexico with most offensive familiarity. The names of the streets are instances of this profanation, which has existed wherever monas have been the masters. Thus, the Mexican will tell you that be lives in "Jesus," or in the "Holy Ghost." In the Spanish navy the most sacred names were similarly profaned; and the Santissima Trinidad.' (the Most Holy Tr , nity) was a flag•ship in the fleet destroyed at Trafalgar. What blas phemies and brutalities must not have been mingled with this sacred name in the mouths of a crew ! other character ;:excellent in Orator Grw-l." Sunderland, Dur.: ham, Stockton, Whitby, s c „ hurough .Newcastle, and oc casionally, Nnrtbampton, were the fields of his exertions. At these places his talent for prol. , gues and epilogues was frequently called upon, and at intervals, too, he set forth certain small pieces in print, such as an " Elegy on a Pile of Ruins" (rather too muck► an echo of Gray), an d the Stanzas on the Death of George 11."—Fraser's May. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. orn is the only article much nnti, an active demand being experienced at about 2s. advance on the currency of this day se'nniglit. ARRIVALS OF CORI,: From the Sth to the 14th Sept, COAST. !CANADA U.STATS Oats Qrs Rye Qrs Beans Qrs, Pease Qrs ShelledßarleyQrs than G Q- .m, ...orn . Qrs. 1 95 Oatmeal .. Loads 852 5 Flour. .... Sack s ' 1959 400 Ditto EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat,— qrs.; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Oats, qrs.; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, sacks ; Flour, 34 brls.—lreland.Wheat, 814 qrs.: Bar ley, qrs.; Beans, 5 qrs ; Oats, qrs ; Indian Corn, 4675 qrs. ; Oatmeal,— sks ; Flour, 148 sks 5517 brls —Coa.twise. Wheat, 617 qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Malt, 5 qrs.; Oats. 12 qrs.; Beans, 381 qrs. ; Pease, 762 qrs.; Oatmeal, 165 sacks Indian Corn, 143 qrs. ; Flour, 362 sacks 5627 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending, Sept. 5.184. Wheat 495. Ott. I Baxley 315. od. I Oats 235. 2d. Rye 325. 7t. Beans.. 40s. 4d. j Pease.. 375. I d Aggregate average of the six weeks Wheat 465. 9 - d:1 Barley 283. Id..l_oats 235. 4d. 1 Rye 305..6d, 395. 84i. I Pease.. 365. 7LI Duty on Foreign Produeethis week . WheatiOsOd I Barley 3s 6d Oats .. . Is 6cl I Rye.. 3s 6d Beans 3s fid I Pease.. 3s 6d I ind. Corn Os Od I Flour ads Od Duty on British Colonial. Wheat.. Is. Od. I Barley.. Is. od. I Oats. Is. od. I Rye .. Beans.. Is. Od. Pease.. Is. Od. I Flour. 4id. cwt, Liverpool Averages, week ending Sept 8, 1846, Wheat, 76j qis., price 45s od ; Barley, 51 qrs., price Os rd Oats, 662 qrs., price 27s Beans, 65 qrs.. 445. Od. ; Pease, Duties paid in Liverpool, week ending Sep. 10 Foreign.—Wheat, ass qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Malt qrs. ; Oats, 300 qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Beans, 900 ors ; Pease, qrs.; Indian Corn, 5714 qrs. a Oatmeal, 24, loads; Flour, 298 barrels. Colonial.—Wheat, 3937 qrs. ; Pease, 50 qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Flour, 24266 brls. led.; Rye, qrs., price Os. Cd qrs., price s. Od. I TEH BLIND GIRL OF MANZANARES (From a Madrid Letter in a Morning Paper.) The moment the Andalusian diligence stops to change horses at the Manzanares, a small town about eighty miles from Madrid, a young woman, twenty-two years of age, blind, though not from her birth, of a vulgar counte nance, and meanly clad, addresses herself to the passen gers, and seeks to excite their charity by means of a vol ley of extemporary verses. She usually asks the travel lers for a rhyme, and they try to select the most difficult metres, and most absurd verses. She gets out of the di lemma as well as she can, sometimes with forced con structions and nonsensical stanzas, which such difficul ties necessitate, but she never stops short nor hesitates; scarcely has the line issued from the lips of the voyager, than the copresponding rhyme is supplied by :he mouth of the poor poetess. The facility of extemporaneous composition is certainly no proof of a great extent of intelligence, nor do the verses of the blind girl merit the name of poetry, yet some of them are not wanting in grace and simplicity. But the singular faclity with which this woman manages the idiom, the extraordinary rapidity with which she torms the framework of her compositions, and seizes on the rhymes and metre corresponding with the given verse, are Rifts, the absence of which is too often evident in the works of many of our poets in their forced or lax and fee ble stanzas. But this humble improvisatrice posses another accomplishment far superior to that of making, in her perfect knowledge of Latin, its rules, its delicacies, its difficulties, and its principal authors. When a child, she sat at the door of the Latin class of the town, then presided over by a dornine of that race, now almost extinct, composed of men whom unremitting study and great experience in teaching had rendered fa miliar with the whole range of the literature of the Latin language. The blind girl listened attentively to the les sons, and engraved them on her stupendous memory. The schoolmaster was not long in perceiving her taste and capabilities, and the worthy man resolved to culti vate and bring to perfection this intellectual prodigy She manifested' an insatiable curiosity and a daily increas- DISCOVERIES OF LORD ROSSE'S TELESCOPE. I • (From Professor Nichol's " System of the World.") And now, if only for a moment, contemplate that stel lar creation in its unveiled magnificence ! Restrained no longer by the consideration of probabilities, freed from :'y of discerning amongst its mighty forms only resemblances of those developments of power which more closely surround us, we can recognise no limit 'either to its stupendous extent or inconceivable variety. The nebulous spots resolved into stars, is a fact which of i self vasly modifies our conception of the magnitude of that creation; but how hopelessly does imagination strive to enlarge itself, that so we realize the interior gorgeousness of tl-- the necessi.l ..ese distant groups ! In the masses of nebulous stars, circular or compact galaxies of all orders of glory may n'iw be traced, leading from the splendid cluster in Her. cules, as their lowest point, up through schemes of being in which sun is nearer sun, until their entire skies merge into one blaze of light and one throng of activities ;—not like ours, coldly studded with points far apart, whose -- mutual influences are sundered by huge abysses! But OTAL. high above all stands Orion, the pre-eminent glory and w, inuer of the sideral universe. Considering it as so re mote, that its light cannot reach us in less than sixty thousand years, and at the same time as occupying so large an apparent portion of the heavens, how stupendous must be the extent of that nebula! It would seem almost that, if all other clusters hitherto gauged were collected and compressed into one, they would riot surpass this mighty group, in which every wisp, every wrinkle, is verily a sand-heap of stars ! There are cases in which, though imsigination has quailed, reason may still adven ture inquiries and prolong its speculations ; but at times we are brought to a limit across which no human faculty has the strength to penetrate, and where, as now—as if on the threshold of the very infinite—we can only bend our heads and silently adore. * * * _ _ In regard of inquiries so vast, perhaps we should expect no more than an intimation of the reality of such motions. But we can go a step still onward. The solar motion, if undefined in reference to the nature of its vast curve, can yet be approximately valued, in regard of absolute amount. The question of the parallax of the fixed stars, or of our power of measuring spaces sufficiently evanescent to de termine the distance of those stars from our solar sphere, is irresolvable no longer. Twice, at least, has it been distinctly answered, and by two men of no uncongenial habit of mind, over whose loss science had recently to grieve: one the illustrious Besse', with whose fame Eu rope is filled, and my lamented countryman Thomas Henderson. Unquestionably to this latter astronomer belongs the glory of planting the first mile-stone amid the external spaces ; and—speaking in reverence, though in unison with the imperfect desires of man—it may surely be deplored that, unlike the case of the immortal German, the life of the discoverer was closed, not indeed in the beginning of his usefulness, but in the very spring-time of a fame adequate to his great deserts. The case of one of these stars, and probably the best' defined, will suit us now. It is Bessel's-61 Cygni. The circumstances are briefly these : the remoteness of this star from our plane tary sphere is definitely about 670,000' times our distance from the sun ; and we have accurately determined its apparent motion through space. Its distance from the point of observation bring known, that apparent angular motion can be converted into an apparent motion of so many miles; just as a traveller could tell,-should a remote object appear to be in motion—if he knew the interval dividing him from it—the exact amount of its displace ment. Now, if this displacement of 61 Cygni is owing, as it is, in all likelihood, not to its proper motion, but to the translation of the sun, we may clearly infer, on the simple principle above stated, with what velocity we are darting through space. In Bessel's opinion, we may move in this immense orbit thrice as fast as the earth travels in its planetary ellipse ; or with a speed so swift that we might reach 61 Cygni in 41,000 years. Now, large though this period is, there is nothing in it whatever to overwhelm our imagination. If geology is not the veriest fable, if we are not to return to the old conceptions, that the rocks of our world's crust, with their entombed crea tures, have been laid down there purposely as the most mocking of enigmas—an enigma that seems- to have a meaning and yet has none—even this great course of years is only a very brief point amid the latest changes affecting the surface of the earth. Free, then, from fear, let us rise far higher; and, assuming that Bessel's star indicates the average distance of the nearest orbs, we infer that the sun would require no more than • 500,000 years to reach that extremest verge at which the eye can descry a single star ; nay, it could reach that remotest distance to which Lord Ro'se's telescope can pierce. in about two hundred and fifty millions of years; and so far is even this stupendous period from sounding all the working time of nature, that many of the mountains of our earth may, through its whole duration, have been in being, rearing their peaks towards different constellations, and surviving, in their littleness and fragility, even these immense transitions! The numbers I have quoted are indeed only approximate; but, in rendering conceivable a subject so vast and vague, they have, notwithstanding their necessary inaccuracy, an important use. Under their direct announcements, the stability of our supposed universe wholly disappears. The stars that shine over us now may indeed be those that arrested the ardent gaze of the Chaldeans; but at depths of Virile by no means beyond our reach, we must have passed through many arrange ments of orbs; and if, as assuredly they do, these stars move like the sun, our majestic cluster may no: now in any part have been a similitude of what it was ! How stupendous such ceaseless evolutions ! How overwhelm ing the thought, that what, above all things, seemed the fitting emblem of the Eternal, is thus almost visibly-sub ject to transiency ; even in its most august and awful forms, only one phase of the fleeting and phantasmal! Often overpowered by the dread contemplation; beneath such majesties feeling, as in faintness, that surely L must be lone and forlorn, I turn ever with a cheering delight to that sweet home-picture of Luther's, when he speaks of the little bird that, on summer's evenings, came to his pear tree at sunset, and sang, ever melodiously and with out one note of misgiving, because, though dread eternity was above, below, and around it, God was there also 1 DEER STALKING.—The detestation of deer to sheep is so great that they will not inhibit the same ground with these animals. A remarkable instance of this antipathy was observed in the end of the last century by an old dro ver, " familiarly called " And robhai r ban," when crossing one of the great moors of Sutherland, soon after the first " head of sheep " had been turned into Lord Ray's forest. The narrator was surprised by the appearance of a large column of near a thousand deer, marching out of the country in a steady determined emigration. Disgusted by the invasion of the sheep and their dogs, they had col lected from all parts, and unable to find " clean ground," continued their course out of the country, dispersing into the most solitary glens. From these they never returned, and harassed and killed by the shepherds and farmers, their numbers became reduced to the few and scattered fugitives which lingered in a state of outlawry in remote coires, until the " commercial spirit " of England spread to the Highland hills, and it was discovered that harts and hinds could be converted into marketable stock, like other cattle. Hence deer are now " grown " for Saxon guns, as wool for Manchester looms, or beef for Smithfield shambles. The abhorrence of the deer to sheep did not result merely from the disturbance of their dog•. Ir is true, that, like the corollary of St. Columbus cone ruing cows and women, " where there are sheep there mt at be dogs, and where there are dogs there most be mischief." But the chief cau-e for which the deer shun the society of their woollen enemies is the closeness of their feeding and the foulcess of their fleece. The deer is very delicate in his food, and exceedingly fastidious as to the purity of his pasture. Independent, therefore, of the abridgement of his provision by the excoriating teeth of the tree and herb exterminating •` gallgeall," he cannot endure the oily ran cour of their wool, which poisons the fresh heather and sweet green shealing. Wanting these nuisances, he exhi bits an antipathy to the intercourse of black cattle, his old aboriginal brethren of the hill, whose clean coat and mo derate feeding spar the grass and leave no tint of tar and oil in the pasture. Hence the deer and the stirks may be seen herding in the same coire and reposing on the same turf. Sheep in any considerable number are an introduc tion into the highlands since the latter end of the last century, in which it was discovered that mutton was not only a safer, but a more profitable stock than man. It is vet well remembered in Argyllshire, that the first Cheviot brought into that county was introduced by Mr ,ampbell, of _ale, upon the farm of Balantyre, near Inverary, in the year 1771. The earliest similar coloni sation in Inverness-shire was in Morven, about the year 1777. The shepherd of these flocks, of whom the first was a certain John Todd, from the neighbourhood of Dumbarton; the second, a Braidfoot from the border, introduced the first " maud," or " shepherd's plaid," worn in Argyll or Inverness. Similar flocks and their feeders disseminated the expulsion of the deer, and the introduction of the base "holden-grey," which has since usurped the place of the tartans of the clans ; and at its first appearance, from the calamities by which it was ac companied, and its degraded supplantation of the national dress, was truly and significan , ly named, " Bratgalla," " The foreigner's rag," and "an riochd-mallaichte," " The accursed grey." This hue is to the Highlanders what black is t., their neighbours ; and so detestable for its wan and ghastly appearance, that its association af forded the popular appellation for ghosts and devils; hence an apparition —a phapt ,rn—" an Riochtl.' The grey, or wan—The spectre foreboding death—" am bo dach glass," the grey earl; another of an evil genius, in the shape of a goat—" an Glastig." or " Glasdidh " " the Grey," or wan ; and, as in the south, the great ene my is named familiarly " The Black Gentlemon," so, in the Highlands, he is called " Mai , an Riochd," th e so n of the grey. In the ideas of the old wives and children of the last century, all these personifications, except one, were as nearly as possible those of the modern " dubh gall," deer-stalkers, in their chequered " hodden grey," wanting only the " Jim Crow," " iuffian," or " crush hat "—enormities which had not then completed the mas querade of Death and Satan. It is easy to trace the ori gin of this association. The ancient Caledonian hell, like that of Scandinavia, was a frczen and glassy region, an is. land named " Itruiren," far away among the "wan waters " of the northern ocean, and involved in the ever lasting ice, and snow, and fog. In this association, th e appearance of the evil spirits, its inhabitants, like that of mortals in similar circumstances, was believed to be dim, wan, and cloudy shades, such as men become when seen through a frosty mist. Thus a party of modern deer. stalkers, noble, well appointed, and gallant though they be, in despite of the gold Geneva watch-chains, and cost y Purdie rifles, which peep from beneath their shepherd plaids, would represent to an old " Sealgair-nambeann " the liveliest vision of the fiend and his familiars; and . we have no doubt that, if " Alasdair Mac- Dhonacha-Tdh," or even " Eoin-dubh-drinachin," had even met, iti the grey of the morning, either Lord 0., Sir H. G., or The Ruffians of Aberarder," he would have fled the bill for that time, and n ver would have returned to it again be tween sun setting and sun rising.—[lt has pleased a wri ter of the " Cockney school " of Highlanders to convert this word into " Glaslig," which we take leave to observe is unknown in the Highlands, and did not exist before the year 1841.1—Caledonian Mercury. DALY BESTOWS A HELMET ON BULLY DODD (From The Knight of 9wynne.) The great square volume - in which the Knight used to record his notes of the neighbouring poor, lay on the table ; his chair was placed near it ; all was in readiness for his coming who was to come there no more I As Lio nel stood in silent sorrow, surveying these objects, the shadow of a man darkened the window; he turned sud denly, and saw the tall, scarecrow figure of Fleury the madman. A large placard decorated the front of his hat, on which the words " Down with the Darcys l" were written in capital letters. and he carried in his hand a bun dle of papers, like handbills, which he shook with a me nacing air at Lionel. " What is this, Fleury ?" said the youth, opening the window, and at the same time snatching one of the papers from Isis hand. " It is the full account of the grand auction of govern ment hacks," said Fleury, with the sing-song intonation of a street crier, " no longer needed for the service of the Crown, and to be sowld without reserve." " And who cent you here with this?" said the young man, moderating his tone so as to avoid startling the other. " Connor Egan, Hickman's man, gave me a pint and a noggin of spirits, to cry the auction, and tould me to come up here, for maybe you'd like to hear of it ye'r selves." Lionel threw his eyes over the offensive lines, where, in coarse ribaldry names the most venerablewere held up to scorn and derision. If it was some sa:isfaction to find that his father was linked in the ruffianly att ick with men of honour as unblemished as his own, he was. not less out raged at the vindictive cowardice that had suggested this " There'll be a fine sight of people there, by all ac counts," said Fleury, gravely, " for the auction bills is far and near over the country, and the Castlebar coach has one on each door." Is popular feeling always as corrupt a thing as this !" muttered Lionrl, with a bitter sneer, while at the same tima the door of the room was opened, and Daly entered ; his face was marked by a severe cut on one cheek, from which , the blood had flowed freely, a dark black stain, as of a blow, was on his chin, and one hand he carried enve loped in his handkerchief; his clothes were torn besides in many places, and bora traces-of a severe personal con flict. " What has happened ?" said , Lionel, as he looked in alarm at the swollen and blood-stained features, " did you. fall ?" " Fall no such thing, boy,"" replied Daly, sternly, " but some worthy folk in Castlebar planned a little sur prise for me this morning. They heard, it seems, that we passed through the town by daybreak, but that I was to return before noon, and so they placed some cars and turf creels in the main street opposite the inn, in such a way, that while seeming merely accident, would, effectually stop a horseman from proceeding. When arrived at the spot, I halted, and , called out to the fellows to move on and let me pass : they took no heed of my words, and then I saw in a moment what was intended. I had no arms, I pur posely left my pistols behind me, for feared something might provoke me, though not anticipating such as this. So I got down and drew this wattle from the side of a turf creel—you see it is a strong black thorn, and good stuff, too. Before I was•in the saddle, the word was passed, and the whole street was full of people, and' I now perceived that by the same manoeuvre as they employed in front, they had also closed the rear upon me, and cut off my re treat. Now for it now for it !' they shouted. ' Where's Bully Dodd ? Where's the bully ?'—l suppose you know the fellow ?" " The man that was transported ?" " The same ; the greatest ruffian the country was cursed with. He came at the call without coat or waistcoat, his shirt-sleeves tucked up to his shoulders, and a handker chief round his waist; ready for a fight. There was an old quarrel between us, for it was I captured the fellow, the day after he burnt down Dawson's house. He came to wards me, the mob making way for him, with• a pewter pot of porter in his hand." •' We want you to dhrink a toast for ue Mr. Daly,' said he, wish a marked courtesy and a grin that amused the fellows around him You were always a , Patriot, and won't make any objections to it.' " What is the liquor ?" said I. " Good porter, divil a less,' cried the nob, • Mol Heavyside's best,' and so I took the vessel in my hands, and before they could say a syllable, drained it to the bot tom, for I was very thirsty with the ride, audio want of something to refresh myself.' " ' But you didn't dhrink the toast,' said , Dodd, sa vagely. Where was the toast ? He didn't say the words,' shouted the mob. " Off with his hat, and make him drink it,' cried out several others from a distance—they saved me one part of the trouble, for they knocked off my hat with a stone. " Here's health and long life to Hickman O'Reilly,' cried out Dodd, ' that's the toast.' " And what have Ito wish him either,' saii I, while at the same time I tore open the pewter measure, and then with one strong dash of my hand, drove it down on the ruffian's head, down to the very brows. I lost no time af terwards, but striking right and left, plunged forwards: the mob fled as I followad, and by good luck,, the car horses getting frightened, sprang forward also, and so I rode on with a few slight cuts a stone or two struck me, nothing more—but they'll need a plumber to rid aly friend Dodd of his helmet." " And we used to call this town our own," said Lionel, bitterly. " Nothing is a man's own but his honour, air; that base cowardice yonder believes itself honest and indepen dent, as if a single right feeling, a single good or virtuous thought could consort with habits like theirs; but they are less base than those who instigate them. The real scoun drels are the Hickmans of this world, the men who com pensate for low birth and plebeian origin by calumniating the wellborn and the noble.—What is Fleury wanting here ?" said he, as attracted by Daly's narrative, the poor fellow had drawn near to listen. " I am glad you put the pewter pot on the bully's head, he's a disgrace to the town." said Fleury, with a laugh, and he turned away as if enjoying the downfall of an enemy. " Oh ! I see," said Daly, taking up one of the papers that had fallen to the ground, " this is the first act in the drama; come along, Lionel, let us talk of matters nearer to our hearts." GENERAL MISCELLANY. HEAT OF AUGUST, 1836,—The temperature of the last month was five degrres higher than that of August, 1845. 01 202 commitments in the county of &Afford, 143 were for offences against the game laws. _ Twenty-nine violins belonging to Dr. Crampton, of Dublin, have been sold by auction for £2BO. Blackberries are selling in many of the towns in this county as high as fourpence a quart. The number of soldiers in receipt of pensions is above fifty thousand. The in-door pensioners of Chelsea Hos pital are about five thousand.. . . . . . It has been ascertained that in one district of the town of Southampton, among 1094 persons above 15 years of age. 957 do not attend any place of worship. The protectionists of Essex are about to give a dinner to the Duke of Richmond and Lord George Bentinck. It will take place at Chelmsford, on the 25th instant. The remains of a body, supposed to be a man, were found in a midden at Chesterfield, on Wednesday week, by a person who was removing the soil. Lord Henry Bentinck has had unprecedented success among the red deer, his lordship having already killed sixteen stags, many of them of a great size. The bell•clapper of Altrincham Chapel fell on Sun day morning last, forcing its way through two floors of the building. EFFECT OF RAILWAYS..—The whole of the coachyard and stabling of the celebrated Bell and Crown Inn, Hol born, London, is being converted into dwelling-houses Mr. Fox Maule has announced, that "it is not intended at present to take any further measures for revising the laws relating to the militia, nor for assembling that force for training and exercise." _ _ On Tuesday, a man was killed at the Birkenhead end of the Chester Railway, by a train of carriages running over him. H e saw them coming, and apparently lost ail nerve. They passed over his body and head. At Kilmarnock, a woman last week administered a quantity of whiskey to her child, three years old, for the purpose of making him quiet. The object was effectually accomplished, for the child died in a few hours. John Smith, convicted of the late murder at the Guild• hall Coffeehouse, London, has been respited during her Majesty's pleasure, and his sentence will be commuted to tranyportation for life. THE NEW MISSIONARY SHIP.—It is expected that the launch of the missionary ship, the John Wesley, will take place at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on the 23rd or 24th of this month.— Watchman. HARD CHEESE.—A late traveller in Suffolk, describing the cheese made in that county, said that if a piece of it were offered to a hungry dog, the animal would stand and bark at it in wrath because he could not bite it. A commodious market-hall is now building in the High street at Wrexham, from an excellent design by Messrs. Penson and Son. The cost of erection is estimated at £5,000, and it will doubtless prove a great convenience and advantage to this improving locality. THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY.—This interesting family have reached their native shore in safety. They sailed hence in the Cambria, and, as they neared the wharf at East Boston, they struck up " Home, sweet home," and sang with thrilling sweetness that touching song. William Ellis, whilst endeavouring. at l{oehampton, to separate a bull from driving a herd of cows, was tossed into the air by the animal, received a wound in the thigh, and a laceration of the spine, which caused death shortly afterwards. During an affray with poachers, on Saturday night week, William Setter, who was assisting the gamekeepers of Sir W. P. Carew, of Haccombe-house, Newton Abbot, was shot by Henry Warren, one of the poachers, and died next day. A butcher's boy was at work in his master's shop, at Nottingham, last week, when a flash of lightning severed the blade of a knife, leaving the handle and a portion of the blade in his hand. The young man stood aghast at this awful visitation, but, happily, was uninjured. THE Tuasm—All the principal correspondents from Scotland, in Bell's Messenger of Monday, represent the turnip as following the potatoes in its tendency to exten sive disease ; and that fattening stock in the north fur the London market will receive a severe check. CRICKET. —The game at cricket between eleven of the All England party and eighteen of the Leeds district of Yorkshire players, which commenced at the Victoria Cricket-ground, Leeds, on Monday, terminated on Wed nesday. All England were the victors by 229 to 158. The Devizes Gazette says, a correspondent thus laconi cally informs us of the amusements in Marlborough, on Tuesday :—" We had quite a gala day here to day. Two cricket matches—Cooke's circus—Odd Fellows dinner—is Ranting Chapel opened—and two good fights." The Wood Pavement in Cheapside. London, has been condemned by the commissioners of sewers, but it will remain until next spring, when it will be removed and re placed with granite similar to that now putting down in Fleet-street. CONVERSION.—On St. Bartholomew's day divine ser- vice was held in the church, Shoreham, as usual, when a young lady, who had become a convert, renounced the pe culiarities of the Society of Friends, and was publicly ad mitted as a member of the Church of England. Two VESSELS SUNK.—On Saturday evening week, in the Humber, between Hull and Goole, two vessels, each laden with grain, had the misfortune to come in contact with the sands, and were very quickly capsized. Their hatches were washed off, and their cargoes greatly damaged, and it is feared both vessels and cargoes will be lost. Two serious fires alarmed the inhabitants of Edinburgh on Sunday week. One occurred at the Polton paper mill, near Lasswade, the property of Messrs. Annandale and Son, and destroyed property of the value of £12,000. The other was the warehouse of Mr. W. Boak's tannery,. Westport. Three-fourths of tl - e premises were consumed At the Middlesex sessions, o❑ Tuesday, by some acci dent, the door opening into the dock was left unbolted, and a man named Rice, one of a batch of prisoners just placed in the cell, finding egress easy and the coast clear, quietly put on his hat, and passing through the court, succeeded in making good his escape. Lord Metcalfe expired on the sth instant, after a lengthened and most painful illness, at Rushanger House, Basingstoke, where he had been staying for some time previous. A cancer, with which the noble lord was first attacked in Canada, was the prelude to a tedious and painful illness, which has at length terminated fatally. John Hilliard, against whom a coroner's jury, in Lon don, returned a verdict of manslaughter, for having caused the death of Thomas Parker and Sarah Jones, by selling poisonous berries. has, after a further examination, been committed for trial for wilful murder, the evidence being to the effect that he knew the poisonous nature of the fruit. GROWING ONE'S OWN COFFIN.—Died, on Saturday, Mr. William Whitehead, farmer, Eleswick, aged 82. In early life he planted an acorn in his garden, which grew to be a full grown tree. A few years ago, the tree was cut down, preserved, and according to his own request, has been applied for his coffin, in which his remains are now doposited. EXTENSIVE ROBEEILY.—EarIy on Tuesday morning, the premises of Mr. John Isaacs, at Chatham, High street, were broken open 4 and a vaivable portion of goods stolen, with which the thieves got off undiscovered. The booty consisted of between 70 and SO watches, plate, and jewellery. The amount of the loss is estimated at between £lOOO and £2OOO. rHE RUMOURED DIESOLUTION.—At a meeting of the Southwark Operative Protestant Association, on Tuesday evening last, Col. Sir W. Verner said, " that he held a letter in his hand, which came almost directly (as we un derstood) from the Premier, in which it was stated, that before three weeks were over, the present Parliament would be disso!ved." A SHIP AGROUND ON ZItE TUNNEL.—On Sunday week the tide run out so low that the steam-ship Vene zuoia, bound to Havre, deeply laden with passengers and goods, grounded over the Thames Tunnel, where she re mained for two hours till the tide flowed. Not a brick was started, and no damage whatever was done to the work% a proof of their stability, and the pains taken in the construction. TIII3 DISPUTED CORN Dun.Ea.—The Globe says the claims of those parties who paid duty on foreign grain, under protest, in the interval that o2curred between the lapse of the old corn bill and the operation of the new, in 1814, are at length about to be adjusted. Government, it appears, have offered a compromise, which has been ac cepted, and matters are now in such a position as to lead to the hope of a final settlement in a few days. CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAwEL•LERS.-A passenger on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, who foolishly per sisted in standing on the ton of one of the carriages, not withstanding the admonitions of the guard, was killed on Wednesday week, by his head coming in contact with the arch of a bridge, which crosses the line. This is a fear ful mode of running the risk of being decapitated, and we trust it will act as a caution to others. EXPORT' OF Wit EAT.—A letter appears in the Times of Saturday, noticing the export of several cargoes of wheat from Lincolnshire to France,--where wheat is selling high,—and calling on the Times to prevent such shipments, while famine is threatening us at home in one part of the empire; but surely in free trade, the farmer must be allowed to sell in the dearest market—or where is Sir Robert and his imaginary truisms RAILWAY ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY. A Company under this title has issued its prospectus in Paris, having for its object the indemnity of persons tra velling by railway who should meet with accident thereby. According to the terms of the prospectus, the widow or the children of 'an insured, who should have met his death by railway accident, will he entitled to receive a life pen sion according to the premium paid. About 350 Conservatives and Protectionists dined to gether, on Wednesday last, at Coleshill, North Warwick shire, in testimony of the honourable and consistent con duct of Mr. C. N. Newdegate, one of the members for that division. Among the company present were—Lord George Bentinck, M.P., L-rd Brooke, M.P., Lord New port, M.P., C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., R. Spooner, Esq., M.P., C. Colville, Esq., M.P., Sir T. Biddulph, and a host of other influential parties. THE BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The total receipts at the late musical festival at Birmingham were £11,310. 3s. 3d. Notwithstanding all that was said of Elijah, the columns of applause previously written upon it, and the high expectations which the well-merited fame of the composer were all calculated to inspire, it did not supersede the Messiah in point of attraction or real utility. The day of the Messiah, as appears from the return of the receipts, proved the greater attraction. Yesterday week, three young gentlemen, named Mack ender, Gunness, and Wakelin, pupils of Mr. Rogers's boarding school, at Louth, Lincolnshire, were unfortu nately drowned whilst bathing. They were in company with their schoolfellows, forty in number, when the three named, with two others, got out of their depth. Through the exertions of Mr. Rogers, who, with two assistants, were watching their movements, two• were saved, but the three others could not be rescued. The duty on the importation of foreign wheat continues this week at ten shillings per quarter. A considerable advance in the price of wheat has taken place since last week, chiefly in consequence of the failure of the potato crop, and of the alleged deficiency in the produce of wheat ; but it may be doubted whether the high rates now ruling can be maintained in the face of the supplies to be expected from abroad, and the considerable stocks standing over from last year. THE SUPPLY OF POTATOES TO THE LONDON MAR KETS has been for some days past diminishing. The de mand is so great, and the supply is so scanty, that the potatoes are actually sold before they arrive in the various markets. The prices are also increasing daily, and are now much higher than for years past at this time of the year. At present, small inferiors are fetching as low as three shillings a cwt., but others of a superior description (and less diseased) are fetching from is. to Bs. per cwt. THE CHINESE SILVER.—Her Majesty's ship Serpent, which arrived in England from China a few months since, conveyed, as one of the instalments stipulated for the evacuation of Canton and treaty of peace with that country, treasure in Sycee silver of the value of nearly £500,000; but on opening one of the boxes supposed to contain that species of bullion to the amount of £300,000 value, it was discovered to be filled with lead. Of course, immediate conference has been opened with the representatives of her Majesty at Hong Kong, to obtain the required dif ference of payment. THE TkGIIIONI TESTIMONIAL.—The elegant piece of plate subscribed for by the frequenters of the Italian Opera-hon.e, will shortly be presented to her. The value is 300 guineas. The piece of plate is of frosted silver, and consists of a group of three mythological figures, and the fizures of two animals, partly taken from the ballet of Endymion, in which Taglioni appeared in the season of 1845. Diana is surveying Endymion, who sleeps on a bank, behind which Cupid, crouching, watches the goddess. She is accompanied by a fawn; the dog of Endymion is also introduced. OMNIBUS STATISTICS.—The total number of omni buses now traversing the streets of London is 1,490, giv ing employment to very nearly 4,! 00 hands. The earnings of these vehicles vat y very much, on some roads being as high as £4 per day, and on others as low as £2; but tak ing the lowest average, we shall then find that there is spent in omnibus rides, in end around the metropolis, the large sum of £2.980 per day, or £1,017,000 p r annum.. Persons can now be conveyed as great a distance for six pence as would formerly cost five times the amount; be sides the whole is so regulated, that there is a comfortable means of conveyance ready at all hours, from eight o'clock in the morning till twelve o'clock at night, to all parts of the metropolis, and for miles beyond it in every direction MELANCHOCY AND FATAL EVENT.—An aiccdent of a very melancholy nature has occurred at Wentworth. On the Ist of Septeunber, Mr. Massey, Secretary to Earl Fatzwilliam, was out shooting, accompanied by one of the keepers, named Charles W-sr. The keeper, who was in advance of Mr. Massey, started a hare, pointing it out, and laid down, in order that Mr. Massey might fire over his head. Not firing immediately, however, West pre- sumed that the hare had escaped, and, just as he was rising from the ground, Mr. Massey fired. The charge hit him on the forehead, and traversed the skull to t:te back of the forehead, but none of the shot penetrated the bone. Im mediate assistance was procured, but he nontinnvd to lin ger until S , lnd-q, when death trrrninated his sufferings. SUPERS' ITI6N IN ESSEX —A correspondent states that a day or two since, a gathering, as it is technically called, was rnAde at Southend, for the benefit of a vounrr woman residing in the neighbouring village of Piistlewell, ,Ahcr having received a coup de soliel, whilst working in the fields, has since bean sufiering under paralysis. On making inquiries as to the merits of her case, the writer was gravely informed t y a re ,, pectable female, that the current opinion was, that she was bewitched by an old woman in the village. It was also further stated that she was under the advice of a wise man, who had promised to make " the witch burst, or in other words, t- remove the spell that very night. How the exorcism succeeded, the writer did not hear. but it is to be feared that this form of superstition is but too common.—Daily News. WonictiottsE ATROCITY. —There has been a poor-law atrocity in the parish of St. Pancras, which Mr. Wakley has been the means of b6riging to light. In the parish Workhouse, there have been found huddled together in " the shed," or " the black hole,"—a set of poor wretches whom the managers of the parish were deliberately keep ing in half.starvation,—ending, as it now appears, in some cases in suicide Yet. even this doleful place is de cent to one still lower. There is a " black bole," with a little iron gtati:;g, as window, a straw mattress and coun terpane, and bread and water. Into this place girls were thrust for being " saucy" to one of the under-servants. How long they were kept there does not very clearly ap pear,—but in " the shed," which the coroner declared to be worse than most gaols, one of the witnesses bad been I. immured for two or three years Sept. 16, 1846. PAUPERS IN BIRNIINOEIAM.—At a meeting held at Birmingham on Friday, Mr. George Edmonds stated that in the year 1803, the population of the parish was 60,000, and it contained 3,019 paupers ; at the present time the population was 151,000, and the number of pau pers has only increased 500. there being now 3,567—a striking instance of the indu , try and providence of the working population of the town. The population of the parish is something less than three-fourths of the popu lation of the borough. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT CFIESTERFIELD.—A great sensation has been created in Chesterfield and the neigh bourhood by the discovery, in a large cess-pool. of the bones of a human body, supposed to be those of a man named Collins, who suddenly disappeared some time ago. It appears that a person employed in cleaning out the cess-pool found a number of oones which he suspected not to be those of an a,imal. The next day the suspicion was confirmed by the discovery of rt. , human skull, which had been considerably fractured. Further search was made, and a handkerchief was found, tied as if it had been slipped off a man's neck. The handkerchief bears the initials-of the missing man. It is stated that some other portions of clothes, believed to be his, have also been found, and it is presumed that the fractures found en the skull were the cause of death. Suspicion has fallen upon a man whc was seen in the company of the deceased shortly before he was missed, and on Friday he was commiated by e co roner's jury on a charge of wilful murder. ADULTERATISN OF MILK.—A defendant was sum moned on Friday, at the Palace Court, London, to show by what means he could pay the debt for which judgment had been obtained. The defendant (a milkman) denied that he ever owed the debt. Toe plaintiff had got the case to come on before he' (the defendant) could arrive with his witnesses. Plaintiff's Attorney : We are not trying that. What terms do you , offer ?—Defendant : None. The plaintiff has ruined me. (To the Court): nought my milk of the plaintiff, but there was so much water in it that I lost my custom, and my " walk" had to be sold. I have paid £2300 to the plaintiff for milk which I have had of him to the extent of 26,000 barn gallons, but in that there were 26,000 quarts of water, besides the colour hag. I'll swear as an honest man, for I have seen him put it in. (Great laughter.) Plaintiff's attorney : And did you never put water in it ?' Defendant: Very little, be cause it was so weak ; the plaintiff put in so much, that it got sour before it could be delivered. (Laughter.) After some further discussion , the learned judge ordered that the defendant should attend neat court day, and pro dtice his witnesses. A: STRUGGLE FOR MASTBRY : OWNER V. COM MANDER.—The Standard rela t es a curious and comical fracas that recently occurred on board one of the Royal Yacht Club vessels. The yacht was out at sea, some dis tance from land, when a difference of opinion took place between the noble owner and the captain, a half-pay naval officer. Epithets of no very gentle or complimentary nature were very freely bandied between the belligerents; and at length the noble owner turned up all hands, and ordered the crew not to consider Mr. as their captain, and no longer to obey his commands. On this the captain went below, armed himself with a brace of pistols, re turned on deck, and threatened the owner with the wea pons, telling the crew at the same time, that be was le gally their registered commander, and that, unless they obeyed his orders, he would treat them as mutineers. It is also reported that he went so far as to threaten to put the noble owner in irons if he occasioned any further dis turbance. The captain ultimately brought the vessel into port ; but, of course, be now no longer commands her. It is said that this strange matter will afford scope for the display of talent and fun for the gentlemen of the long robe, as law proceedings have already commenced. THE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST CAPT. RICHARD SON.—On Wednesday last, the case of Capt. Richardson, charged with altering a cheque for £lO to £5,000, in his capacity of chairman to the Tenby, 'Worcester, and Lud low Railway Company, and thereby committing a forgery upon the banking house of Messrs. Coutts and Co. was again brought before the lord mayor. It appeared in evidence on the last occasion, that of five notes of £l,OOO each, obtained at Messrs. Coutts's, three were subse quently changed for gold, at the Bank of England. and it was also stated by the secretary of the company. that the cheque originally drawn for £lO had not been altered when it was returned to him with the signatures of Mr. Whitmore and of Mr. Stephenson subjoined to that of Capt. Richardson. On the present occasion several wit nesses were examined, whose evidence went to show that several large sums of gold had been exchanged for notes by Captain Richardson. Mr. T. Stephenson, a director of the Tenby, Worcester, and Ludlow Railway Company, stated that the signature, " Thomas Stephenson." attached to the cheque for £5,000, was in his hand-writing. He had never signed any cheques in blank, nor had he ever signed any cheque for £5,000; but lie had attached his sig nature to a cheque for £lO, payable to No. 11. After some observations from Mr. Clarkson, the prisoner's counsel, Mr. Bush. who attended for the prosecution, applied for a postponement of the case; and, after some discussion, the prisoner was remanded until Friday next. BRITISII ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANOEMENT or SCIENCE.—On Thursday the British Association com menced its meetings at Southampton. The official an nouncement received from Mr. Anson, stating that his Royal Highness Prince Albert would visit the association at the general meeting, and also all the sections, infused new spirit into the exertions of the local committee. No particular preparations were, however, made for his reception, it being the expressed wish of his Royal High ness that his visit shall be merely in his private character royalty as a member. This first recognition of science by rova will, it is expected, give quite a new impetus to the exer tions of the association, both at present an d i n perspecti ve • This is not, however, the only royal recognition of the present meeting, as M. Struve and M. Von Mindenborf will be there as scientific deputies from the Emperor of Russia, as well as M. Oersted and M. Forcharntner from Copenhagen, by the express order of the King of Den mark, M. Rstaions and M. Swanberg from Stockholm, deputed by the King of Sweden ; whilst the science of Prussia will, as on several previous occasions, be repre sented by the Chevalier Bunsen, the ambassador from that country, Other distinguished persons who are an nounced to be present are—M. Matucci, the eminent physiologist, from " ;M. Rose, the chemist, from Berlin ; M. Schonbeib , from Basle; M. Dumas, from Paris; MM. Elie de Beaumont and Constant Provost, the eminent French geologists—who will all be accommo dated at the houses of several of the members in the town. The vice.nresidents—the Marquis of Winchester, the Earl of Yarborough, Lord Ashburton, Sir George Staun ton, M.P., the Bishop of Oxford, and the Speaker of the House of Commons—have all expressed their intention of being press-at. THE DISSENTERS AND POPERY.—The mode in which the Edinburgh and Derby elections have been carried on, shows that the real position of the Romish question is not yet understood. And especially does this appear to be the case with the leading Dissenters, upon whose con duct and decision the actual result will, in a great mea sure, depend. They have placed the question on a very narrow and insufficient basis, and one grounded in error- They urge very warmly, that " it will be unjust to tax the English Dissenters to establish a Popish Church in Ire land." To this position both Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Strutt very readily assent, and promise to oppo se a ny such plan. And with this promise many of the Dissenters are satisfied. But what if the plan for establishing Po pery in Ireland shall not propose to tax the Dissenters of England for that purpose ? Will they there be content to see the measure pass; Is it the wretched three-farthings a-piece which they might have to contribute, that forms the only point of interest? Do they care nothing hoe' many religions—true or false—the State shall establish and endow, so that they are nut asked to contribute? We cannot think so meanly of them. Oar apprehension is, ti at the plan, when it is offered to Parliament, will be found to he very carefully devised ? inasmuch as it will neither tax the Dissenters, nor take anything from the Church. We believe that other funds will be found—na tional, perhaps, but not derived from taxation,—which will be made available. And, therefore, we anticipate that opposition to the plan, whenever it shall become ne cessary, must be based in opposition to Popery, as a false and dangerous error; and can be successful on no other I ground. Hence it will be needful, in any other elections which may arise, to reduce the matter to this po nt. That is, not to talk of " the injustice of taxing Dissenters"—in which doctrine many candidates, like Mr. Strutt, will readily concur—but to claim a positive pledge that Popery shall not be endowed, let the funds be derived from what son ce they may. It is only by thus going to the root of the matter that any effectual security can t be obtained. _ THE WILL OF Lotto CAungaY,latelfC;aile Freke, Ross Carbery, in In-Lind, and of Laxton-hall, NorthamP tonshire, and of Belgrave-square, Middlesex , has Jus t been proved in London upon the sentence of the Preroga tive Court. The personal estate in England, within ti! : province of Cantetbury, was valued at A:90,000. lordship from illness, and at his advanced age, l' av reached his 80th year, was unable to sign his name a nd title to his will, which was executed by procuration , the very Rcv. H. Newman, M.A., Dean of Cork, in h!S lordship's presence, and at his sperial direction, and in the presence of witnesses, on the 26th of April, 1845 ; his lordship died on the 12th of May following. The execu tors are, his relict Lady Carbery, and the Rev. J. Stop ford, of Abbey Ville, Cork, and the Rev. J. Freke, of Kelsoe, Skibbereen, Ireland. He leaves to Lady Car bery the rents of his estates in England and Ireland for her life, and he-1 to his nephew, G. E. Freke, eldest son of his late brother, P. E. Freke, who is to be permitted to occupy Castle Freke and Laxton-hall, and to receive £4OOO a year, and increased to £5OOO on marriaze. The estates are entailed on his issue. Lady Carbery possessetit a power of disposition over £6OOO by will or otherwise , and to her is lett the picture of Viscountess Sudley. The plate, tnoks. jewels, and pictures, at Koss Carbery anci Castle Freke to be held as heir looms with the Irish es tates. The plate, books, jewels, pictures, prints, and paintings in England, together with the ring which wag given by - Queen Anne to G. Evans, who was created Lord Caibery in 1715, to be held and enjoyed as heir looms with the mansion of Laxton hall. The possessor of his estates to obtain the royal licence to use the name a nd arms of Freke. Leaves to his nephews, P. E. Freke and F. E. Freke, .£aooo each, from his estates in Ireland, Oil the demise of Lady Carbery each to other nephews at the same period. Immediate annui ties, varying from £3OO to £5OO, also to nephews ; and to the Rev. J. Stopford, an executor, a legacy of £5OO. Le gacies to his steward, head gardener, and to his houshold servants. Directs that Castle Freke shall be the principal family seat and residence of the inheritor of his estates , who shall reside there at least four months in the years with a suitable es'ablishment, or he shall expend £2OO O in each year he so neglects to reside thereon, to be laid out in ,he improvement of the estates. His seat in the cathedral church of Ross Carbery is to be kept in be coming repair, and leaves £lOOO. for the improvement of the church at Laxton. Any claimant of his estates be coming Papist, or Roman Catholic, or shall intermarry with a Roman Catholic, their interest therein shall cease and determine, and go to the next in remainder, provide,' such party is a Protestant. The residue is left under_tlA same trusts as the freeholds.