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tturaturr. NOTICES :rchman's Mont hlj ly Penny Magazin'. Wertheim, London. 0 , -g:A the periodicals of the month, we omitted last to name this new and valuable work for the million, Ind, as its prospectus states, " To bring before the va- Aasses of society true Christianity in its vitality and and also to show the solid Scriptural foundations ich rests the venerated and hono ure d c h urc h o f our We are infirmed, that in ttfeWd;;s - L11;; and copies of the first number have been sold in this and those who are circulating it will be glad to see rms in which the excellent Bishop of this Diocese while others who have not yet heard of tcation, will rejoice to follow his advice. therefore present the following extract from the the Bishop of Chester to the editor of the maga- mends it, Sit,—You have undertaken a public duty with little pros ; of personal advantage, therefore you arc entitled to such 3uragement as one of the pu , ,lic who is interested in your tot can ..fford you ; and I write to say that I have read with it satisfaction the first number of the Churchman's Monthly tly Magazine, a periodical which present circumstances ren necessary, but which would be most useful and desirable, zif no circumstances existed to call it forth. I heartily ap '7: both of the sentiments and execution of this commence- I - of the work ; and I trust, through the recommendation of i , enerally, it nay attain such a circulation as can u you to continue it. "J. B. CIIE•iTER. May 31, 18t6.!' !tory of the Reformation, by Dr. D'Auhigne. Vols. 1 and 2. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. /:e two first volumes of this most valuable work have I forwarded to us by the publishers, who have been uriate enough to obtain the revision of this translation ne by line and word by word," by the eminent bisto himself, and which, as he informs the public in a tes )nial, is " the only one v%hich he has corrected." Dr. Les.ignc has also made various additions, not hitherto tidied. This edition will therefore become, from its !ssary accuracy, a favourite with all who feel an inter in the stirring scenes which the author depicts with a graphic power as to make us almost fancy we are en ed personally in the transactions of that portion of the :eenth century when the Oorious reformation was ac- Iplished. Most of onr readers have already seen in • own columns or elsewhere specimens of our author's and proofs of his historical research. It is now, of superfluous to enter into an examination of this Ak—its character for original and important informa an -has been sufficiently established, and its accuracy in detail which could by possibility be assailed, has ally maintained against numerous and unscrupulous ilants. Lie edition before us will comprise four tzuclsome volumes. e's Life of Lorenzo de Medici—Bohns Standard I' Library the seventh vclume of a series of valuable works, now publishing in beautiful end uniform style, by Mr. Bohn, at an extremely low price. This is another v-r_,rlk which it is now too late to criticise, but this edition is enriched by a new memoir of the author, written by his and contains a fine portrait of "TheNlag,nificent." 12 our previous notices we have said that this series is printed in a new and elegant form, and this duly consi dered, it is a marvel how the price can possibly remune rate the publisher, who has certainly succeeded in fulfil ling.the promise in Lis prospectus of "rendering the pro jected series worthy of distinction," and we hope he has tecured the success which he has certainly used all the ,means in his power to merit. The Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second by :ount Grammont forms an "extra volume " of the series ast alluded to, and is printer; with the above title and in a ilfferent coloured binding, to mark the distinction from ae.Standard Library; and the publisher has given it .his distinguishing exterior, because having shown his in rations in publishing works of such established reputa ion as those of Robert Hall, Sismondi, &c., he is anxi- Tas to manifest some evidence of his wish to deserve the ?,:on)idence of his subscribers, many of whom would other cc be startled on seeing in such a series art issue of a work embued with so much of the leaven of Charles the Second's days. The volume has a beautifully executed !ortrait of Nell Gwynne. Hogg's Weekly Instructor continues to deserve its aracter for high moral sentiment, for a vast mass of in •mation important to every branch of society, and fur scellaneous and amusing literature. Sharpe's London .312gazine, of a character somewhat lambling the preceding publication improves in its pie rtal and must win its way with the The Tiny Library, for which Mr. Connor, of London ad, is the local agent, is a new candidate for the appro .l cf our juvenile friends, who will find nothing in its gas beyond the grasp of their comprehension, while ey will find abundance of moral entertainment and in :motion, which is illustrated by a great number of well ecuted woodcuts, calculated at once to stamp more for *. the impression and the writer's meaning on the in nt mind. Union Magazine. London : Barker and White, 33, Fleet-street. _ _ This publication has now completed its first volume, IA fully maintains the high character of its first numbers. present number for J une contains some excellently :ten articles, of a class calculated at once to amuse and nstruct. N'Ve cordially recommend the Union Maga to the reading public. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Ten o'clock. LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE. We have just received information of a lamentable oc currence which we are sorry to say has involved a sac rifice of life. It appears from the brief particulars we have learned, that about eight o'clock last night a joiner, named Richard Wignall, residing in a cellar in Gore-street, Toxteth-park, had some words with his wife sufficiently loud to attract the attention of the neighbours, by whom he was observed to fell her at one blow (with, we learn, a piece of wood,) to the ground, from the effects of which she died immediately. Dr. Cameron, of the South Dispensary, was promptly in attendance, but his services were of no avail. The perpetrator, who is 26 years of age, is in custody. VARIETIES. CONVIVIAL BLUNDER.—The lord mayor, at a dinner Even to the French ambassador, proposed the health of he three consuls. The toast was repeated by the toast. master, as the " Health of the Three per Cent. Consols. Elip, hip, hip, hurrah." To PRESERVE MEAT is HOT WEATHER.—First wipe le meat gently and lightly with a clean cloth, then dust ver every part with pure oaten meal. The meal imparts t-sweet flavour to the meat. It must all be wiped away .gore the meat is put down either to be boiled or roasted. —Magazine of .Domestic Economy. ANCIENT IMPORTATION INTO HULL.—About 1595, F-Z find entered in the household book of the Cliffords, sum of eleven shillings " for six cabbages and some aret roots bought at Hull." These were then imported :om Flanders, whence even Qaeen Catharine, in the eign of Henry VIII., had her salads. Potatoes and tur ips were not generally known, even to the gardener, un a the reign of Elizabeth.—Hull Packet. THE CAUSE OF CORNS.—If shoes were constructed in he shape of the human foot, neither too large nor too mall, and making an equal pressure everywhere, corns nd bunions of the feet would never exist. But, unfortu tztely, shoes are seldom made after this fashion; and_in e.s . ''sboes especially there are generally two signal de- ets,—first, the extremity of the shoe is much too Dar w for that part of the foot, (namely, the toes.) which it to contain ; and, secondly, for the purpose of display g as much of the foot as possible, the whole of the tar and metatarsus is left uncovered, and the pressure of e shoe in front is thrown entirely upon the toes. The es are thus first squeezed against each other, and then fished out of their natural position ; and all the project g points, chiefly where the bones are situated, are eched and tormented either by the neighbouring toes or the leather of the shoe ; and thus it is that corns of the at are generated.—Sir Benjamin Brodie's Lectures. A. RAPID COURTSHIP.—The history of Robert Hall's irriage was a singular one. It has been related in a aen different ways, but I believe the following account 't to be correct :—One day, whilst alighting at a friend's • for the purpose of dining with him, he was joked on , orship. He said nothing, but whilst at table .Juserved to take particular notice of the servant girl, J came in to replenish the fire. After dinner, as he s sitting alone in the study, the young woman again en ed it with the coal-scuttle, when Mr. Hall, whom she I supposed scarcely less than a king, said to her, Jetty, do you love the Lord Jesus Christ ?" The girl ied, that she hoped she did, taking the question merely a accustomed one from a minister. To her utter sur and consternation, however, Mr. Hall immediately ved it up by falling on his knees and exclaiming. a, Betty, ycu must love me," and asked her to In her astonishment she ran away, and said . Hall had gone mad again (he had been _..elged). Her master, like herself, was surprised, on his speaking with Mr. Hall on the subject, the lat. declared his intention of marrying the gill, who he said i taken his fancy by the manner in which she put the as on. They were married, and lived happily together. Is widow survives him.—Pen and Ink Skelche3. TREATMENT OF LIIERARY MEN.--The soldier, the lot, the architect, the painter, are all within sight of most lavish prizes of public liberality. Parliament has t given titles and superb pensions to the conquerors of Sikhs. The India Company has followed its example. applaud this munificent liberality in both inseteces. 3 general officers have thus obtained a peerage, with 00 and £5OOO a-year. They deserved those rewards. the whole literary encouragement of the British em with a revenue of fifty-two millions sterE;!,-;, is £l2OO, more than the tenth part of the pension allotted to two gallant men. £l2OO for the whole literary en --t of England ! There can be no greater scan -tnal honour of the country. The pettiest —l e limits its literary encourage t whether Weimar, between did not give twice the sum npetitios' with the liberality u' te - le mean. Louis XIV. Acel 80,0'0 francs a-year to Acad my, a sum eiuivalent in ,to little lL En than , 000 a-year .nd. Frederic 1 1. gave pensions whole corps of litt. ary M 5 1. At Is moment there is scarcely a man of any i er try dis action in Paris who has not a share in the hoecal and se patronage of government, either in office or public , sion. But if we are to be answered by a class, pletho ,ith wealth and rank, that literature ought to be con eith living on its own means, must not the obvious be—ls the author to be an author, down to his ave. Is there to he no relaxation of toil? Is there to be o allowance for the exhaustion of his over-worked facul es? for the natural infirmities of years? for the vexations a noble spirit compelled to submit to the caprices of ablic change ; and with its full share of the common lamities of life, increasing their pressure at once by an vitable sense of wrong, and by a feeling that the delight his youth must be the drudgery of his age? When the Dryden, in his seventieth year, was forced, in the _es of his heart to exclaim `Must I die in tlie har Aess ?' his language was a brand on the common se nse , aR ont he just generosity, of his country.—Blackwoos o this sum erary of s, it is to hundred years age . , al t da'y, and in Fra bittern iay, and in Engl, THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, 7liree o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, This DAY. We have received since this day week a moderate quan tity of Wheat and Oats, with a good supply of Flour from Ireland, but of other produce thence, or of any Coastwise, the arrivals are trivial ; whilst of Wheat and Indian Corn, the imports from abroad are liberal, and of Flour nearly 56,000 barrels, augmenting the stock in bond here over 628,000. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the I(th to the lith June, inclusive IRS- COAST. i UNITED 1,0- LAND. WISE. ,ST %TES. REIGN. Wheat.. Ors. 2540 10 3833 4002 Barley Qrs. , 372 j 12 Malt Qrs. 91 733 Oats Qrs.l 4371 155 Rye Qrs.l Beans Qrs. 105 1668 Pease Qrs. Shelledl3arleyQrs. Indian Corn. Qrs. 8778 2906 Rapeseed.... Qrs. Oatmeal .. Loads 206 15 Flour. Sacks) 8013 6 Ditto 10385 384 824 4486 EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs. ; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, sacks ; Flour, 337 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 400 qrs. ; Bar ley, qrs.; Beans, —qrs ; Oats, qrs.; Indian Corn, 1503 qrs. ; Oatmeal, sks ; Flour, scks, 10 brls. —Coastwise. Wheat, 50 qrs. ; Barley, 10 qrs. ; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, 24 qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, 23 qrs. ; Oatmeal,— sacks ; Indian Corn, 31 qrs. ; Flour, 669 sacks Ito 7 Average prices of Grain, for the week ending June 6, 19-16. Wheat 528.1nd. I Barley 2;s. Bd. I Oats323s. 4,1. Rye 32s lid Beans.. 355. lid. j Pease.. 345. 10d. Aggregate average of the six weeks Wheat 555. 3d. I Oats, 235. Bd. 1 Rye 335. 2d, Beans.: 345. 6Li. I Pease.. 345. 8,1 Duty on Foreign Producetlds week. Wheatl7sOd I Barley gs lid I Oats .. 5s Od I Rye.. gs 6d Beans 7s 6ci I Pease.. fis 6e. Ind. Corn Os Od Flour lOs2id Duty on Canadian. Wheat.. Is. od. I Barley.. 2s. od. I Oats ..os.6d. I Rye.. Is od Beans Os. 6d I Pease Os.6d. I Ind. Corn (•s.)d. I Flour .Os 73d Duty on other British Colonial. Wheat.. 4s. Od. I Barley.. 2s. Od. I Oats, n , . 6d. I Rye... Is. Od Beans.. Os. (id. I Pease.. Os. 6d. I Flour. 2s. 51 - 1. Liverpool Averages, week ending June 2, 1846. Wheat, 1864 qrs., price 47s 6d; Barley, 45 qrs., price 24s ICd; Oats, 487 qrs., price 245. 10d.; Rye, qrs., price Os. Od.; Beans, 43 qrs.. 355. Od. ; Pease, 0 qrs., price Os. Od. THE FALL OF ROME. ITS CAUSES AT WORK IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE (From Blackwood's Magazine.) The people in our great cities do not call out, as in an cient days, for gratuitous distributions of corn from Ly bia or Egypt ; but they clamour just as loudly for free trade in grain with Poland and the Ukraine, which has the effect of swamping the home-grower quite as com pletely. The great capitalists do not make collossal for tunes by the plunder of subject provinc , s, as in the days of the Roman proconsuls ; but they never cease to exert theirinfluence to procure a contraction of the currency by the measures of government, which answers the pur pose of augmenting their fortunes at the expense of the industrious classes just as well. Political writers, social philosophers, practical statesmen, fall in with the pre vailing dispositicn of the most influential classes: they deceive themselves into the belief that they are original, and promulgating important truths, when they are merely yielding to the pressure of the strongest, or at least the most noisy, class at the moment in society. The Reform Bit gave three-fifths of the British representat on to the members for boroughs. From that moment the eventual adoption of legislative measures favourable to the inter ests of capital, and agreeable to the wishes of the inhabi tants of towns, how destructive soever to those of the country, was as much as the daily distribution of Egyp tian grain to the inhabitants of Rome, Antioch, and Con stantinople was, when the mob of these cities became, from their formidable numbers, an object of dread to the Roman government. The only answer which the partisans of free trade in grain have evEr attempted to these considerations is, that the ruin of the agriculture in the central provinces of the Roman empire was owing, not to the importation of fo reign corn as a mercantile commodity, but to its distribu tion gratuitously to the poorer citizens of Rome, Con stantinople, and some of the larger cities in the empire. They admit, in its fullest extent, the decay of domestic agriculture, and consequent ruin of the state, but allege it was owing to this gratuitous distribution, which was in fact a poor-law, and not to the free trade in grain. But a very little consideration must be sufficient to show that this is an elusory distinction ; and that is what the unre stricted admission of foreign wheat by purchase, which in reality, coupled with the contraction of the currency, de stroyed the dominion of the legions. 1. In the first place, the number who received these gratuitous distributions was, as already shown, so small, when compared to the whole body of the grain-consuming population, that they could not materially have affected the market for agricultural produce in Italy. Not more than 150,000 persons received rations in Rome daily, and perhaps as many in the other cities of Italy. What was this in a peninsula containing at that period sixteen or eighteen millions of souls, and with 2,300,000* in its capi tal alone ? It is evident that the gratuitous distributions of grain, taking those at their greatest extent, could not have embraced a fiftieth part of the Italian population. What ruined the agriculturists, who wed to feed the re maining forty-nine fiftieths ? The unlimited importation of cheap grain from Spain, Egypt, Sicily, and Lybia, and nothing else. 2. In the next place, even if the gratuitous distributions of grain had embraced twenty times the number which they did, nothing can he clearer than that the effect on agriculture is the same, whether cheap foreign grain is imported by the private importer, or bought and distri buted by the government. If the home-grower loses his market, it is the same thing to him whether he does so from the effect of private importation or public distribu tion; whether his formidable competitor is the merchant, who brings the Lybian grain to the Tiber ; or the govern ment, which extracts it as a tribute from Sicily or Egypt. The difference is very great to the urban population, whether they receive their foreign grain in return for their own labour, or get it doled out to them from the govern ment store as the price of keeping quiet. But to the ru- rat cultivator it is - immaterial: whether destruction comes upon him in the one way or the other. It is the impor tation offoreign grain which ruins him ; and the effect is the same, whether the price paid for it is the gold of the capitalist, or the blood of the legions. * 'I here ate now 200 , 00.000 inhab tants in Italy, and it was certainly as populous in the time of Augustus. when Rome alone, which now has 18),000, contained 2,385,000 souls. YORKSHIRE REBECCAITES.—There were Rebeccaitea in England in the last century, and bold enough were their proceedings, most certainly. On Friday, the Bth of May, 1732, (says a Manchester paper of that date,) " Benjamin Woodsworth, the bellman or common cryer of Selby, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, made procla mation, by ring of bell, in the public street of the said town of Selby, for the inhabitants thereof to bring their axes and hatchets, at twelve o'clock that night, in order to cut down the turnpike erected at that place by act of parliament ; and on the 7th, Bth, 9th, and 11th instant, divers persons assembled in an outrageous manner, and cut down and totally destroyed the great gate of the said turnpike." 4101111•11 MI THE USE OF TAPERS ON ALTARS.—In a church whose meetings were held below ground, artifical light was a ne cessary accompaniment to every service. Some persons have viewed in this custom the origin of tapers, employed in the daytime by Romanists ; and have wished to consi der the continuance of candles in churches as a thank offering for liberty to worship God in the upper air; a grateful recollection of former privations and concealment. But history seems to c)ntradict so favourable a construc tion of the original motive of " candle religion," and to reer it undeniably to a different source. The general habit of using lamps, mostly of terracotta, is proved by the discovery of thousands in the catacombs. The cubi cula clara, or chapels open to the day, were rare ; perhaps they did not exist till after the last persecution, when the fear of discovery no longer forbad an aperture from the Compagna. But the employment of artificial light for the mere purpose of rendering objects visible is quite distinct from the ceremonial use of it, whether to illuminate the shrine of a saint, or to " do vain honour to the Father of Lights." This ceremonial use, against which the Homily energetically declaims, appears to have been generally connected with idolatry, excepting in the case of the Jewish ritual, and to have been unknown to Christians until after the time of Constantine. Toe burning of lights is specified among the idolatrous rites forbidden by the Theodosian code : " Let no one, in any kind of place whatsoever, in any city, burn lights, offer incense, or hang up garlands, to senseless idols." Vigilantius, in reference to the custom of using lights in divine service, exclaims : " We almost see the ceremonial of the Gentiles intro duced into the churches under pretence of religion : piles of candles lighted while the sun is still shining; and every where people kissing and worshipping I know not what : a little dust in a small vessel wrapped up in a precious cloth. Great honour do such persons render to the blessed martyrs, thinking with miserable tapers to illumine those whom the Lamb, in the midst of the throne, shines upon with the splendour of His majesty." This passage proves that Vigilantius, who must have known well the customs of Paganism, was struck with the resemblance between them and the rites newly introduced into the church.— Dr. Maitland's Church in the Catacombs. PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF MRS. HEMANS.—I can not well conceive a more exquisitely beautiful creature than Mrs. Hemans was—none of the portraits or busts I have ever seen of her do her justice, nor is it possible for words to convey to the reader any idea of the matchless vet serene beauty of her expression. Her glossy waving hair was parted on her forehead, and terminated on the sides, in rich and luxuriant auburn curls; there was a dove-like look in her eyes, and yet there was a chastened sadness in their expression. Her complexion was remark ably clear, and her high forehead looked as pure and spotless as Parian marble. A calm repose, not unmingled with melancholy, was the characteristic expression of the face ; but when she smiled, all traces of sorrow were lost, and she seemed to be but " a little lower than the angels"— fitting shrine for so pure a mind ! Let me not be deemed a flatterer or an enthusiast, in thus describing her, for I am only one of many, who have been almost as much cap tivated by her personal beauty, as charmed by the sweet ness and holiness of her productions. If ever poems were the reflex of the beauties, personal and mental, of their writers, they were indeed so in the case of Mrs. Hemans. —Sketches qf Poets, Preachers, and Politicians. ASCENT OF THE HOLY STAIRCASE AT ROME.—I never in my life saw anything at once so ridiculous anti so un pleasant as this sight : ridiculous in the absurd incidents inseparable from it, and unpleasant in its senseless and unmeaning degradation. There are two steps to begin with, and then a rather broad landing. The more rigid climbers went along this landing on their knees, as well as up the stairs ; and the figures they cut in their shuffling progress over the level surface no description can paint. Then, to see them watch their opportunity from the porch, and cut in where there was a place next the wall! And to see one man with an umbrella (brought on purpose, for it was a fine day), hoisting himself, unlawfully, from stair to stair ! And to observe a demure lady of fifty-five or so, looking back every now and then to assure herself that her legs were properly disposed ! There were such odd differences in the speed of different people too. Some get on as if they were doing a match against time; others stopped to say a prayer on every step. This man touched every stair with his forehead, and kissed it ; that man scratched his head all the way. The boys got on bril liantly, and were up and down stairs before the old lady had accomplished her half-dozen stairs. But most of the penitents came down very sprightly and fresh, as having done a real good substantial deed, which it would take a good deal of sin to counterbalance ; and the old gentleman in the watch-box was down upon them with his canister while they were in this humour. I promise you. — Dickens's Pictures from Italy. LOVE OF DOGS FOR THEIR HOME.—A Newfoundland dog of the true breed was brought from that country, and given to a gentleman who resided near Thames-street, in London. As he had no means of keeping the animal, ex cept in close confinement, he sent him to a friend in Scot land by a Berwick smack. When he arrived in Scotland, he took the first opportunity of escaping, and though he certainly had never before travelled one yard of the road, yet he found his way back to his former residence in Fish greet H ill, but in so exhausted a state that he could only express his joy at seeing his master, and then died. So wonderful is the sense of these dogs, that I have heard of three instances i❑ which they have voluntarily guarded the bed-chamber doors of their mistresses, during the whole night, in the absence of their masters, although on no other occasion did they approach them. * * * A few years ago some hounds were embarked at Liverpool for Ireland, and were safely delivered at a kennel far up in that country. One of them, not probably liking his quar ters, found his way back to the port at which he had been landed from Liverpool. On arriving at it, some troops were being embarked in a ship bound for that place. This was a fortunate circumstance for the old hound, as during the bustle he was not noticed. He safely arrived at Li verpool, and on his old master, or huntsman rather, com ing down stairs one morning, he recognised his former ac quaintance waiting to greet him. A similar circumstance happened to some hounds sent by the late Lord Lonsdale to Ireland. Three of them escaped from the kennel in that country, and made their appearance again in Leices tershire. The love of home, or most probably affection for a particular individual, must be strongly implanted in dogs to induce them to search over unexplored and un known regions for the being and the home they love.— Jesse's Anecdotes. _ _ CLI-OPATRA'S BANQUETS TO ANTONY.—On her landing (from the Cyndus) she invited Antony and his generals to a dinner, at which the whole of the dishes placed before him were of gold, set with precious stones, and the room and the twelwe couches were ornamented with purple and gold. On Antony's praising the splen dour of the sight, as passing anything he had before seen, she said it was a trifle, and begged he would take the whole of it as a gift from her. The next day he again dined with her, and brought a larger number of his friends and generals, and was of course startled to see a costliness which made that of the day before seem nothing; and she again gave him the whole of the gold upon the table, and gave to each of his friends the couch upon which he sat. These costly and delicate dinners were continued every day ; and one evening, when Antony playfully blamed her wastefulness, and said it was not possible to fare in a more costly manner, she told him that the dinner of the next day should cost ten thousand sestertia, or sixty thousand pounds sterling. This he would not believe, and laid her a wager she would fail in her promise. When the day came, the dinner was as grand and dainty as those of the former days ; but, when Antony called on her to count up the cost of the meats and wines, she said that she did not reckon them, but that she would herself banquet on the ten thousand sestertia. She wore in her ears two pearls, the largest known in the world, which, like the diamonds of Eurcpean kings, had come to her with her crown and kingdom, and were together valued at that large sum. On the servants removing the meats, they set before her a glass of vinegar, and she took one of these pearls from her ear and dropped it into the glass, and when dissolved drank it off. Plaucus, one of the guests, who had been made judge of the wager, snatched the other from the Queen's ear, and saved it from being drunk up like the first, and then declared that Antony had lost his bet. The pearl which was afterwards cut in two, was made into a pair of ear-rings for the statue of Venus in the Pantheon at Rome; and the fame of the wager may be said to have made the two half pearls at least as valua ble as the two whole ones.—Sharpe's History of Egypt. THE TOMBS IN THE CATACOMBS GIVE NO SUPPORT TO RoMIsH SUPERSTITIONS.—When we reflect upon the trials which awaited the church, and the combined powers of earth and hell which menaced its earliest years, it is impossible not to recognise the fostering power of a heavenly Hand in thus providing a cradle for the infant community. Perhaps to the protection afforded by the catacombs, as an impregnable fortress from which perse cution always failed to dislodge it, the Church in Rome owed much of the rapidity of its triumph ; and to the pre servation of its earliest sanctuaries its ancient superiority in discipline and manners. The customs of the first ages, stamped indelibly on the walls of the catacombs, must have contributed to check the spirit of innovation soon observable throughout Christendom : the elements of a pure faith were written " with an iron pen, in the rock, for ever ; " and if the church of after-times had looked back to her subterranean home, " to the whole pit from whence she was digged," she would there have sought in vain for traces of forced celibacy, the invocation of saints, and the representation of Deity in painting or sculpture. Whatever dates may be attributed to other remains ; this fact is certain, that the Lapidarian Gallery, arranged by the hands of the modern Romanists, contains no support whatever of the dogmas of the Council of Trent. Rest ing upon this distinction, virtually drawn by themselves, betweeu what belongs to a pure age, and what to the times of innovation, we may safely refer to the latter a number of inscriptions of doubtful date, preserved in the vaults of St. Peter's, which contain prayers to the Virgin Mary, and other peculiarities of Romanist theology. The his tory of Christendom as well as that of art supplies the means of fixing the age of many such monuments; for in stance, the time of Vigilantius, when some bishops, moved by his arguments, refused to ordain unmarried deacons, cannot be confounded with an age in which the celibacy of the clergy became compulsory : nor can we easily mistake for the work of a century that knew only the sign of the cross in its simplest form of two straight lines, the wretched representation of the passion, in a crucifix the size of life, smeared with the imitation of blood, and surmounted by a crown of actual thorns.—Dr, Maitland's Church in the Catacombs.; AGRICULTURE AND THE FALL OF ROME.—So general was the depopulation of the empire in the time of Justi nian, that it suggested to many of the emperors the pro ject of re-peopling those favoured districts by a fresh influx of inhabitants. " Justinian 11. had a great taste for these emigrations. He transported half the popula tion of Cyprus to a new city near Cyzicns, called Justi nianopolis after its founder. But it was all in vain. The desolation and ruin of the provinces continued, and up to the very gates of Constantinople, which was maintained entirely by grain imported at a low price from Egypt, and cattle from the Tauric Chersonesus." As a natural consequence of this entire or principal dependence of Rome on foreign or provincial raising of grain, there was, on any interruption of these foreign supplies, the greatest scarcity and even famine in the metropolis. All the vigi lance of the emperors, which was constantly directed to this object, could not prevent this from taking place. Tacitus says, that in the scarcity under Claudius, there only remained a supply of fifteen days for the city. Fa mine in Rome was frequent under Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Claudian laments, that after Egypt had been assigned to Constantinople, Rome had come to derive its subsistence solely from Lybia, and depended on the double chances of the seasons and the winds. " Nunquam secura futuri, Semper mops, ventique fidem poscebat et anni." " When Africa revolted under Gildo, in the reign of Honoring, Rome," says Gibbon, " was on the brink of starvation, from which she was only saved by large im portationsfrom Gaul." She still depended on her pro vinces; domestic agriculture was ruined. Claudian re presents the genius of ancient Rome bewailing, in Pathe tic and eloquent terms, her dependence for food on the nations she had conquered, in words which all govern ments rendering their people dependent on foreign sup plies would do well to bear in mind. " Formerly," says the poet, " my prayers used to be that my legions might triumph on the banks of the Araxes, or that the consul might display his eagles at Susa ; now all I ask is a sup ply of food to avert the extremities of hunger. Th e province of Africa, which furnishes corn to my people, i s under the power of Gildo. He intercepts our supplies, and our food is at his mercy. He sells the harvests which belong to the descendants of Romulus; he possesses the fields purchased by my blood. The warrior people which conquered the world, now dishonoured and in want, en (ires the miserable punishment of peace; blockaded by no enemy, they are like the inhabitants of a besieged town. Death impends at every moment; there remain only doubtful supplies for a few days. My greatness has been my ruin I was safer when my territory was more ; would that its boundaries were once more at my gates ! But, if lam doomed to perish, at least let me have a different fate ; let me be conquered by another Porsenna ; let my city be burnt by a second Brennus. All things are more tolerable than hunger."—Blackwood. SKETCH OF IBRAHIM VACUA. Ibrahim Pacha is the great lion of the day, and our contemporaries are hard at work in raking up every par ticular of his birth and parentage. Oa the first, the Observer throws great doubt, saying that it is really not known whether he is the son of the reigning Pacha or not ; or whether he is, according to Oriental custom, a son by adoption. An English author has stated that he is the son of Mehemet Ali's wife by a former husband ; but there appears to be no real foundation for this statement. His birth is supposed to have been in 1797. During the life time of Yussuff Pacha, his elder brother, but little atten tion was paid to him. In the East, as in England, elder brothers are more highly regarded than their younger brethren. Yussuff died in 1818, and the native energy of character of Ibrahim Pacha having then developed itself, he at once became the favourite son of the Pacha, and was by him adopted as a partner in the toils of state, and as his ultimate successor. His personal appearance would stamp him as the true son and representative of the great ruler of Egypt. In person and features he has a striking resemblance to his reputed sire. Stern and unbending to all others in the earlier part of their career, they were al ways, according to the report of every Eastern traveller, tender and devoted to each other ; and now that the harder traits in the characters of both have been modified and softened by time and circumstances, they display the same mutual affection. Ibrahim, in the most recent works on the East, is represented to be the model of re spect and attention in the presence of his father, and the old Pacha is said to indicate the same feelings of regard, and almost of fear, for the energetic character of his fiery son. Circumstances have endeared, and possibly rendered them indispensable, to each other. When the task of sup pressing the Greek insurrection was assigned to Mehemet Ali, and death had deprived that prince of his eldest son, who moreover was said to have been of a mild and gentle disposition unsuited to the purpose, no one seemed so fit to aid him as the ready and ruthless Ibrahim. He was accordingly at once dispatched, with the Captain Pacha, from Constantinople to the Morea with a powerful fleet; and, though inferior in years, he soon proved himself to be, both in stratagem and action, superior in the cabinet as well as in the field. When the two admirals met at Marmorice, the Captain Pacha, who had previously been aft aid to expose himself alone to the Greek fleet in the Dardanelles, endeavoured to persuade Ibrahim to sail along with him, and considerately proposed to him the honour of leading in the van. Ibrahim, however, who knew that the other loved him not, sagaciously inferred that where there is honour there must be danger too ; and when on inquiry he found that it was his own vessels that might be first exposed to the dreaded encounter of the Grecian fire-ships, he took precautions which at once re dounded to his own fame, and proved fatal to that of his opponent. He acquiesced, or seemed to acquiesce; but instead of sailing direct upon the enemy's fleet, he weathered it, and proceeded in the first instance to Samos, and having taken this, he assailed the Greeks in rear, without encountering the slightest risk from their fire ships a, the opposite extremity, and dispersed and de stroyed the whole, after one of the most decisive actions recorded in that long and disastrous warfare. His subsequent course and career in the Morea are well known ; and he must not be judged of according to our English notions of war. Massacre and devastation have always been associated with ideas of hostility in the East ; and, rated by the Turkish standard, Ibrahim was was not a whit more sanguinary than every follower of Mahornmed ; chile his policy was often marked by fea tures of a better order. If any one could have restored the Morea to the Ottoman race, or reduced it to order at all, it would have been Ibrahim by his stern resolution and courageous conduct. But fate willed it otherwise and the all'es interposed. The issue of the struggle is well known : the united British, French, and Russian fleets met in the Archipelago, and at Navarino crushed the Turko-Egyptian host. But, though defeated on this oc casion, Ibrahim lost no reputation. The fleet brought out against him was overwhelming, and commanded by officers against whom the followers of the crescent had never been able to make head. Throughout the action his conduct was most courageous. During the whole of it he remained conspicuously on the poop of his ship, is suing orders with promptitude and calmness ; and when all was over he was found, by the British officer who boarded him, smoking his pipe with the same serenity. He had been defeated, but was not subdued; and had not the Ottoman Porte wisely seen the expediency of discon tinuing the struggle, doubtless he would have maintained it with the same imperturbable coolness while a ship or a gun remained. _ . Syria was the next field of importance of Ibrahim's martial career ; and here he evinced, as a general, abilities still greater than those which had marked his conduct as a naval commander. The two services are, in modern days, deemed incompatible ; but it was not so in the older annals of English and European warfare, and it is not so at present in the Turkish system of hostilities. The leading Pasha there is still expected to take the command of the Sultan's forces by sea or land, or both, as occasion may require, as did our English commanders, Howard of Effingham, the Earl of Essex, Raleigh, Drake, &c., in the days of Elizabeth. But utility as well as custom seems in favour of the separation, and Ibrahim has un doubtedly shown greater abilities as general than as admiral. He has, to be sure, had inferior foes to contend with, or at least, has not had to encounter the disciplined forces of the East. But all reports concur in representing his campaig❑ to have been very able, and the troops over which he triumphed were amongst the fiercest of the eastern population. France has long exhausted her strength against inferior forces in Africa, and Russia has for many years in vain attempted to put down a similar race of men in Circasia; but Ibrahim, in two campaigns, completely accomplished his task. The battle of Nezib wts memorable for ite importance, as well as its senaui nary character; and for many years secured Syria to Mehemet Ali's sway, until the country was again torn from his grasp by the English, under Sir Charles Napier, at St. Jean d'Acre. His and his father's magnanimous conduct in allowing free transit to our Indian mail and passengers while we were dealing deadly blows at their power is well known, and has already called forth the strongest expressions of esteem and respect. In so far as regards his personal appearance, this very remarkable individual is no less striking than past events have entitled him to be considered. His age is said not to exceed fifty, but there is a general air of lassitude and of wear and tear, which bespeak either a more advanced period of life, or else that he has used the gifts of nature somewhat freely. FRENCH ETIQUETTE notices, what he considers a great rudeness in us, of which many Englishmen, on their first arrival in France, are unconscious. The instance to which I allude is this : one man, accompanied by many others, meets a lady whom he knows, walking in the midst of a party, among whom are gentlemen with whom he has no acquaintance; he bows to the lady, every gentleman on his side raises his hat, and every gentleman in her suite returns the salute. Nor is this etiquette limited to inter course with the fair sex ; the same courtesy is observed between groups of men ; a bow to one is a signal for a ge neral salute. Now John Bull, at first, under the circum stances stated, takes no notice of a raised hat that is not raised to himself individually ; and says to the ladies in his company afterwards, when they perhaps school him for his rudeness, " Why should I take off my hat, when they did not bow to me?" Of course such a person is deemed a bgte, in the first instance, by the Frenchmen. — Rambles in Normandy, by James Hairly, M.B. TENDENCY OF A YANKEE SOLDIER TO DESERT. — The troops, being divided into small detachments under subordinate commands, have scarcely any opportunity of being instructed in field movements or the other duties of a camp, of which they rarely know anything. They neither have the gait nor possess the military esprit belonging to European troops, to assist them in the performance of their duties, or to reconcile them to the change and vicis situdes of a soldier's life. Desertions are, in consequence, very frequent; and, from the extensive field to which they can escape, a deserter is very seldom returned to his regiment. It is calculated that nearly one-half of the non commissioned officers and privates of the American army desert every year. There is even much difficulty in bring ing them up in the first instance. No sooner do they en list, which is often under some sudden chagrin or disap pointment, than they are confined in one or other of the government forts, from where escape is almost impossi ble, until marched off, well watched and guarded, as so many convicts on their way to transportation, for the re sidue of the period for which they may have enlisted.— Wyse's America. IRELAND AND FREE TRADE. — The Morning Chroni cle, in reply to the splendid article in Blackwood's Ma gazine, tracing the causes of the " Fall of Rome," and showing that they are at work in the British empire, says that " Italy had no products, either natural or manufac tured, to exchange for the corn it consumed." 0-1 this the Cork Constitution pointedly says, " If this be the only answer, what is to be said with regard to Ireland ? What products has she ' to exchange for the corn she consumes ' ? And if there be here a point, not of dis tinction but of resemblance, are we not in the predica ment which, as respects England, the Chronicle dis claims ? And how are we to escape the conclusion to which, on the Chronicle's own admission, the argument of Blackwood leads? England may be safe, because she has products, natural and manufactured, to exchange, and constantly have we said that for England we had neither care nor fear; but with regard to Ireland the case is dif ferent. She has a large population dependent, almost exclusively, on labour put forth on land, and if that la bour is to be superseded by the labour of the foreigner— if it is to be no longer employed in raising the corn con sumed in Ireland, in England and in Scotland, what is to become of the millions who derive subsistence from it? We know that, as many tell us, the land will not lie idle — that if it does not grow corn it will feed cattle ; and how will that employ the people ? and how, without employ ment are they to make out life ? Does any one suppose, moreover, that, in the midst of a starving population, the cattle will be safe ? It will not do to tell them that bread will be cheap. Bread can never be cheap to those who have nothing to pay for it. The man of money may find it cheap, but it is not the man of money we are concerned for : it is the man who has but his head and hands to look to, and who asks but leave to live by the labour which Providence has made the condition of his lot. If this be insured him under the new Corn Bill, we shall be com paratively content—we say comparatively, for we fear that there are other classes who will suffer—suffer from no fault of their own, but from the circumstance of having their properties answerable for debts which they did not incur, and for provisions for relatives which, even where not disproportioned to the rental on which they were im posed, any considerable diminution in that rental would render ilium unable to meet. Such cases are not rare in Ireland, and though we cannot expect a statesman to al low them to interfere with a measure which he believes essential to the well-being of a country, it is not by a Statesman who has always denounced that measure as de trimental, and who has led the country to believe that in him she had a security against its enactment—it is not by such a Statesman they ought to be disregarded." THE PREMIER'S REPLY TO LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. (From Sir Robert's Speech on Friday.) The attack of the noble lcrrd was couclaed - in these terms, " He said he was old enough to remember, and he remembered with deep and heartfelt sorrow, the time when the right hon. baronet (Sir R. Peel) chased and hunted to death an illustrious relative of his (Lord G. Bentinck's) on the ground that he could not support his administration, and who, although he had changed no opinion, was, from the situation he then held, likely to forward the settlement of the question of Catholic eman cipation. Such was the conduct of the right lson. baronet in 1827 ; but in 1829 he told the house that he had changed his opinions in 1825, and had communicated that change of opinion to Lord Liverpool. But that did not prevent him in 1827 from getting up in the house and stating that the reason he had separated himself from Mr. Canning's administration was that he could not consent to support a government of which the chief minister was favourable to the then measure, which it appeared afterwards in two years more he supported." The noble lord said he was old enough to remember these circumstances. No doubt he was old enough, for he was a member of the House of Commons at the time, and he heard all that passed. It is now nineteen years since these transactions occurred, and seventeen years since the speech referred to in 1829 was made. Now, sir, I must say that I do respect the feelings of a man who feels indignant at the conduct of another who has hunted and chased a relative of his to death—no doubt such feelings are to be respected in the highest degree ; but how comes it that, entertaining those feelings, for the first time I should have heard them ex pressed by the noble lord on the last night this measure was under discussion ? (Cheers.) Since the year 1835 I have been honoured by the noble lord's cordial, and I must add, by I believe his pure and disinterested support in this house. He has called me his right honourable friend (cheering), and yet he was cognisant of all that be stated on Monday night. The noble lord has been one of the united political party with which I generally act, and yet never until Monday, the Bth of June, 1816, did I harbour any suspicion of the feelings of the noble lord which he has thought proper to express with regard to my conduct in 1827 and 1829. I now, sir, say, that the entertainment of those feelings by the noble lord would be highly honourable, and I should respect the noble lord for them if they were entertained apart from politics, and if they were founded on facts. The noble lord believes that I hunted and chased his noble relative to death ; but, sir, I cannot understand, that entertaining such feelings as those, the noble lord should have accepted me as his political leader for so many years, and called me his right hon. friend (cheers). I will now go on the assumption that all the noble lord's charges are founded on fact, and that I informed the Earl of Liverpool, in 1825, that my opinions on the Catholic question were changed. The gravamen of the noble lord's charge is, that I declined to act with Mr. Canning, as Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1827 ; but that in 1822, when I was about to propose the removal of the Roman Catholic disabilities, I then admitted that in 1825 my opinions on the question were changed. I am now, sir, about to prove that this charge is utterly without foundation. I made no declaration in 1825 that I did not make in 1827 in the presence of Mr. Canning; and I am surprised the noble lord should have made such a charge without ascertaining whether or not it was well grounded (hear. hear). That which I said in 1829 on the subject corresponded with that which I said in 1827 in the presence of Mr. Canning himself. It is more pain ful to me than it can be to any member of the house that I should have to trouble it with any explanation on per sonal matters , but I believe that there is no man among those even who cheered the remarks of the noble lord who will not willingly allow me to give that explanation (hear, hear). When speaking, on the Ist of May, 1827, —and those hon. gentlemen who do not rely on my state ment will find the whole of these matters reported in the debates of the Ist of May, 1827, and the 5t I and 6th of May, 1829—1 stated that I accepted office, the office of Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the be ginning of the year 1822, and, in 1825, after I had been left in minorities on three different questions connected with Ireland, which were immediately in my department —I mean the Catholic Relief Bill, the Franchise Bill, and the Bill for the Payment of the Catholic Clergy—l waited on the Earl of Liverpool, and told him that it was painful for me to dissever myself from those with whom I usually acted, but that, having been left in minority on those three occasions, I was anxious to be relieved from my situation. My noble friend upon that occasion requested that I should retain office, as upon my retirement, lie said, his own depended, and, on his solicitation, I consented to re main in office until a new parliament could have deter mined upon these questions. That declaration was made by me in 1825, when I was responsible for the govern ment of Ireland, and was the only minister in the House of Commons who was opposed to the Catholic claims. The opposition was so strong, that my situation became intolerable, and I wished to resign it. Mr. Canning spoke afterwards, and said he should confirm the greater part of the speech I made, and bore testimony to the wish of himself and myself to keep up the friendship we had formed. But he said that from the beginning of the discussion of the measures under consideration at the time, both of us foresaw that it must terminate in a sepa ration which he hoped to God would be only for a time. What took place in 1828? In the month of January in that year, the Duke of Wellington was called to power, and a proposal was made to the friends of Mr. Canning, as faithful and attached friends as the noble lord himself, to give their support to the noble duke's administra tion. Did they refuse to co-operate? (Cheers.) Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Grant, and the present Lord Melbourne, made no objection on account of previous transactions in Mr. Canning's lifetime, and within four or five months atter his death, to give their support to an administration of which I was a member. (Hear, hear.) The gallant, honourable, and chivalrous Marquis of Anglesea hesitated not at the same time to take the government of Ireland into his hands. (Hear.) The charge made by the noble member for Lynn, that in 1829 I avowed a change of opi nion in 1825, which opinion in 1827 I concealed, is utterly and entirely destitute of foundation. (Cheers.) I fore saw the difficulties which would result from the course of policy her Majesty's government had pursued; but ne vertheless, considering that the public interests required an adjustment of our commercial system, I hesitated not to propose the change. (Cheers.) 1 foresaw the conse quence of our acts, and felt that they would probably lead to the extinction of political power, and the abatement or extinction of private friendship. But it is for the house to judge of the reasons for our undertaking those mea sures. (Hear.) But that we have been influenced by any impure or dishonourable motives—that I wished so to fortify my power, or that I was influenced by any desire to court popularity, or to gain distinction or advantage of any kind—l declare that such an imputation to me of ino tives so base would be as foul a calumny as a vindictive spirit ever dictated for the destruction of a public man. (Cheers.) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASCOT HEATH RACES. The GOLD VASE given by her Majesty, added to a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 110 subs., won somewhat easily by two lengths, by Mr. T. Dawson's Grimston (Lye), Coranna second, Khondoor third, and Mr Merry's c. by Don John fourth. Romance, Burgundy, and Wood Pigeon also ran. SWEEPSTAKES of 100 sovs. each, won by a length by Lord Chesterfield's Arkwright (Nat), Binnacle second, Turpin third, and the Crown Prince fourth. SWEEPSTAKES Of 50 sous. each, won by a length by Lord Exeter's c. by Hetman Flatoff (Mann), Lord Ches terfield's c by Don John second, Marmillio third, and Field Mouse fourth. The ROYAL HUNT CUP, value 200 sovs., by subscrip tion of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added, won by a length by Mr. W. S. Stanley's Leaconfield (Carter), Ironmaster second, and Colleen Bawn third. The Cure, Lightning, Evenus, Aristotle, Wood Pigeon, The Devil-to-pay, Mr. Godwin's g. by Advocate, Beaumont, Queen Pomare, Mr. Thompson s m. by Monarch, Sir S. Sprigg's f. by Sir Hercules, Rowland Hill, Gannet, Young Eclipse, Mr. Mostyn's c. by Phcenix, Nell Cook, Farthing Can dle, and Regalia, also ran. The CORONATION SPARES of 100 BOYS. each, won easily by two lengths by Mr. Ford's Guaracha (J. How lett), Taurina second, Ellipsis third, Dawdle fourth, and Birthday fifth. On Thursday, being " Cup day," the course was crowded, notwithstanding the absence of her Majesty and Prince Albert. However, there was a novelty in the presence of Ibrahim Pasha, who arrived at one o'clock, with his suite, in three of the Royal carriages. The sports commenced with the race for HER MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas, which was won by Mr. J. Drake's Bold Archer (Abdale), beating Mr. Onslow's Ruff by a length. The ST. JAMES'S PALACE STAKES of 100 sovs. each, won by Lord Chesterfield's The Free Lance (Nat), beat ing Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Joinville and Lord G. Ben tinck's Binnacle. The EMPEROR OF RUSSIA'S CUP, value 500 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 23 subs., won easily by a length by Mr. Greville's Alarm (Nat), Jericho second, and Wolfdog third. Corranna, Forward, c. by Don John, Peri, Inheritress, Mentor, The Baron, Miss Sarah, Kesheng, and Orlando, also ran. Betting :-3 to 1 agst Alarm, 9 to 2 agst Wolfdog, 11 to 2 agst Jericho, 7to 1 agst rlando, Bto 1 each agst Miss Sarah and The Baron, and 18 to 1 agst Corranna. The VISITORS' PLATE Of 100 SOVS. ' won by Count Bathayany's Gannet (J. Prince), Auld Lang Syne second. The following also started :—lntrepid, The Conjuror, Queen Pomare, Leaconfield, Bold Archer, Snake, Leba non, Regalia, and Red Leg. THREE HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS, the gift of the Great Western Railway Company, added to a Handicap Sweep stakes of 10 soya. each, 49 subs., won by Mr. Meiklam's Lightning (Cartwright), Beaumont second. Nineteen others also started. Betting :-3 to 1 agst Rowena, 8 to 1 agst Curiosity, 10 to 1 each agst Lightning, Chertsey, and The Mangier, 12 to 1 agst Colleen Bawn, 15 to 1 agst Sister to Pergularia, and 10 to 1 agst Akbar. Pineapple was first off, but in a few strides gave up the lead to Col leen Bawn, and followed him in company with Rowena to the turn. Rowena here showed in front, but was im mediately headed by Beaumont, who carried the running on to the stand. Lightning, who had always lain well up in the second ruck, now went in front, increased his speed every stride, and won by a couple of lengths, Aristotle a good third, and Akbar fourth. - SWEEPSTAKES of 300 sous. each, 100 ft., 4 subs., won in a canter by the Duke of Bedford's Leopard (Robinson), beating Mr. Walker's Fuzbos. 3 and 4tol on Leopard. DREADFUL DEATII.-At the Manchester hurdle race, Byrne, the steeple-chase rider, was killed. A flight of hurdles was placed at the foot of the hill, which, for a part of the run in, is frightfully steep. Nine horses came down the hill at an awful pace ; the leading horse fell over the leap, and down went both horse and rider ; the next horse leaped right upon them, and also the following horses, planting their hoofs on Byrne's head and chest. He died soon after. THE COURT 6- FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Queen and Prince Albert drove out in an open car riage and four or, Saturday. This was her Majesty's first appearance in public since her accouchement. The names fixed upon by her Majesty for the youthful Princess are " Helena Augusta Victoria," the sponsors being the Duchess of Orleans, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mez:klenburg Strelitz. The Duchess of Orleans is a near relative of Prince Al bert, and, as a Protestant, is the only member of the French Royal Family who could perform the duties of sponsor to an offspring of our Royal House. The Queen Dowager will leave England for Germani to-day. The Grand Duke Constmtine of Russia arrived out Tuesday in Portsmouth. He is about nineteen. Prince Albert honoured the Benchers of Lincoln's-inn with his company at dinner, on. Wednesday, at their new hall. It is Prince Albert of Prussia, and not. as stated in the German papers, the consort of Queen Victoria, who is expected at St. Petersburgh. The King of Saxony has conferred on Mr. Colcruhoun the rank of Commander of the Civil Order of Merit of Saxony. The Countess de Han Han, the celebrated German novelist, has arrived in London, and was at the assembly, given by the Duke of Devonshire on Saturday night. On Wednesday, the marriage of the Duke of Marlbo , .' rough and the Hon. Charlotte Augusta Flower, youngest daughter of Viscount Ashbrook, was solemnised at Larn.. besh Palace by spacial license. Viscountess Hardinge, accompanied by the Hon. Miss Hardinge and Major and the Hon. Mrs. Cunningham, has arrived in tow❑ from Nice. Her ladyship has been in Italy and Switzerland ever since the departure of the Governor-General for India. It was her ladyship's in. tention to have gone to India by the overland route ; but after a few days at sea it was evident that her health; would not admit of so great an effort. IBRAHIM DACHA.—His highness left Portsmouth fog London, on Monday morning, and arrived at Mivart's Ho tel at noon. He took a carriage drive late in the evening to - Regent's Park, where the Pacha alighted from his car riage, and walked some distance in the enjoyment of his cigar. On Tuesday morning he proceeded early to Buc kingham Palace, and afterwards attended a grand inspec tion of the guards, accompanied by Prince Albeit, the Duke of Wellington, Prince George of Cambridge, and e vast number of the nobility. The Pacha, in returning from the parade, was cordially cheered by the populace... His highness was occupied in various ways during the day,. and at night attended a grand assembly at Lady Peel's. On Wednesday, his highness visited the tower, the bank, the mint, and numerous other national edifices and insti tutions. On Thursday he paid a visit to Ascot Heath races with a gorgeous retinue, and conducted by the mas ter of her Majesty's household. He has since been visit ing other places. We understand his Highness's suite intend to leave for a tour in the provinces and the High • lands of Scotland towards the close of this week. LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, JUNE 9. - PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED W. L. and J. W. Lewis, Stroud, Gloucestershire, mercers— J. Kilvert and W. 11. Evans, Bath, surgeons—G. Smith, sen. A. Elder, and P. Stewart, Cornhill, bookseller—A. Nicklin, and E. Forster, Wolverhampton, brush manufacturers—J. and G. Gay, Queen-street-place. Southwark Br!dge, merchants—J. Shoolbred. G. Cook and H. Brown, Tottenham-conrt-road, Lon don, as far as regards G. Cook—J. and E. Grisbrook, Wool wich—J. G. Turner and W. Price, Leeds, stockbrokers—G. H. Newton and H. Peck, Kingst,n-upon- cemet.t manufac try ers—R. Hyslop and J. Dubois, Gosport, carriers—J. Ridg way and J. Tayl, r, Staylybridge, Cheshire, corn dealers—A. Tagliabue and F. Ciceri, Brook-street, Holborn, barometer. manufacturers—W. George and J. Schewring, West Bromvvlch- Staffordshire, porter dealers—H. Bury and J. P. Crewe, AccringB ton, Lancashire, engineers —T. and W. Birtwisle, J. Haydock., and W. Preston, Great Harwood, Lancashire, cotton-spinner. —G. Long and G. Taylor, Stafford, auctioneers—J. T. Holland and T. Cross, Coventry, railway contractors—J. Irnray and W. Fitch, Old Fish-street-hill, London, wholesale -stationers—J. Jesse and W. Bevan, Manchester, surgeons—E. Brown and G. Trafford, Louth, Lincolnshire, carriers—J. Catchoole and C. Williams, Regent-street, goldsmiths. oANKRUPTS. John Gisborne, Coleman-street, London, merchant. John Richard Miskm, Chatham, tea dealer. Jesse Smith, Wellington-street, Newington•causeway, Lon don, cheesemonger. Edward Weeks, King's-road, Chelsea, hothouse-builder, John Wright, Oxford- st reet, London, druggist. John Child, Wakefield, grocer. Charles Gallimore, Birmingham, pearl button-maker. Frances Freeman Phillips, Bristol, coach maker. John Scott, Sheffield, flour dealer. Frederick Sly, Truro, carrier. DIVIDENDS. Jure 30, W. W. Sanderson, Great Russell-street, Covent garden, London, baker—June3), J C. Adams, Basinghall•street, London, woollen - warehouseman —June 30, J. Mann, Norwich, woolstaplcr—June 30, T. Streeter, High-street, Camden-Town. draper—June 30, H. Turner, Theobald's•road, London, cow keeper—June 30,J. Rowles, Lei ester, worsted manufacturer. CERTIFICATES _ _ To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary OR the day of meeting. June 30, J. Kircup, Rotherhithe, coal merchant—June 30, Y. Wilson, Bury-street, Chelsea, cabinet maker—JtVy 8, J. Tebbntt, Cambridge, auctioneer—June 30, F. .1. and W. H. Abiett, High Holborn, dripersJuly 1, El. M. Ryder, Kingston-upon-Hull, grocer—July 3, B. Sayle, Sheffield, ironmaster—June 30, H. Hall, Smalesmouth, Northumberland, cattle dealer—June 30, G. Williams, Bristol, watchmaker—Juno 3,, R. Goodridge, Exeter, baker—June 30, J. Johns, Grosvenor-street West, Pim lico, cook—June 3 0 , E. and T. Rolph, Shepherd's-court, Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, London, builders—June 30, J. S. Ellis, Houndsditch, brassfounder—June 30, G. Brown, Shift nal, Shropshire, banker. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. Palmer and W. L. 011ard, Upwell, Cambridgeshire, attor. net's—W. Star and J. Benatead, Church-street, Lisson-grove. London-3. Paining and J. Heyworth, Plymouth, stationers— M. Wiseman and T. Cole, High-street, Kens'ngton, coach makers—W. Warwicker and T. C. Golland, Cambridge, col lege drapers—M. and E. H. Matthews, Bristol, printers—W. M'Lean and A. Dinwcodie, Manchester, stockbrokers. DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. P. Owen, Liverpool, miler—first dividend of 3s. in the pound. Wednesday, June 17, or any subsequent Monday, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. J. Martin, Wood-street, Cheapside, fringe-manufacturer. G. Goddard, Leicester, tea dealer. T. Mair, Broad-street-buildings, London, merchant, T. and W. B. Upton, Leeds, flax spinners. J. Clough, Huddersfield, chemist. R. Edwards, Huddersfield. woollen-draper. J. Roberts, Darwen-hall, Denbighshire, farmer. J. Mallileu, Sowerby, Yorkshire, cotton spinner. W. Houghton, Birmingham. builder. G. James, Leamington Priors, drapers. R. Wm r, Beamister, Dorsetshire, auctioneer. J. Austen, Devonport, draper. BANKRUPTS. David Clark, Liverpool, leather dealer, June 22, July 21, at IS o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy; soli citors, Messrs. Johnson and Co., Temple, London, and Mr. Grocott, Liverpool; official assignee, Mr. Bird, Liverpool, John Compton Hill, Heading, Berkshire, grocer, John Wyatt, Ockliam, Surrey, common brewer. Charles Benns, Winchester, miller. William Hart, Whitechapel, High-street, London, hat manu facturer. John Bedford Pim and Charles Payne, Mansfield-street , Borough-road, paper makers. Thomas Simmons, Woodburn, Bucks, corn merchant. James Stavely, Manchester, dealer in printed calicoes aria flannels. Charles Fox, Kingston-upon-Hull, victualler. James Holt, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, glove nand' facturer. DIVIDENDS. July 51, J. Jay, London-wall, builder—July 6, G. Boggs. W. Taylor, and W. Shand, jun., Great Winchester-street, merchants July 6, G. Boggs. Great Winchester-street, merchant —July 2. R. Headingtcn, Bath, laceman—July 3, O. Hughes, Holyhead. linen draper—July 3, W. G. Taylor and E. Guy, Liverpool, hosiers—July 3, G. P. Payne, Liverpool, dealer fi optical in struments—July 7, J. Blundell, Wigan. pawnbroker—July 8, J. Nicholson, Blackburn, linen draper—July 7, C. Reesby, Stam ford. miller—July 7, W. Hoare, Alstonefield, Staffordshire, apothecary. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on th 6 day of meeting in Ka. i n s ßd s i o o dw o r ub agent—July ogtgi: satn 3, 0. July 3, J. R. Croft. Liverpool , Hughes, Holyhead. linen draper—W. Ilarding, Stockport, cotton manufacturer—July 3, J. S. Gregson, Manchester, grocer—July t 3 J. Leeds,on, Cloug Clough, a x l - 1 udd spinner—Julye rsfi d, chemist 3, cm . S. Hutchinson, Bradford, Yorkshire, stockbroker—Ju:7 3, T. LuP" field, book-keeper. , j l-1 " l o Y d d 3 e r STATE OF TRADE. ad ditionalfe e M R o a r,cg N MANCHESTER .— Owing ROCHDALE.—On confidence fiEt T hd. E le c—oenr7tn account ch n i ol o tl utsoht manufacturers, p c t ha a s u es s h e t s oh ieid wLareferredyohsrod, last sn t toh:owi has given et our q. little has been doing this week, either in goods or Yarns. The e r require higher prices. feaet goods were offered for sale on Monday. There was a veil, tb , i t, attendance of buyers, and little b us i ness done. There IS -- change in the Wool market. LEEDS.—The rumours of a pending def ea t and resignation of -- the Ministers has had some influence on our markets this W` h e both merchants and manufacturers fearing to speculate in t : b e slightest degree—the one in the purchase, and the other in ~h E production of Woollens. We have, thereforg, to report On but little business has been done both in the Cloth Halls aa; the warehouses since our last publication. Stocks, howev er ' remain but low, asd hopes of a good autumn trade still e a ' tinuc to be entertained. BRADFORD.—The business doing in Wools is still limy The spinners show no disposition o extend their purchases ;' ,lO yond present wants, which are very small, owing to ed diminished consumption. The demand fo r Y arns cootir: o d. steady, but no increase in price to induce the s pi nner s to carol their operations. There is no chan ge i n the p i ece tra de " 0 4 what we noted last week The pr os p ect of an early harvest, „0, speedy settlement cif the Corn Bill, are l oo k ed upon as f - able to a progressive improvement. 510 16 HUDDERSFIELD.—We have no chang e t o re p or t, but a most market here on Tuesday. Th e genera l talk during gle mos° has been on the anticipated change of the Government., t here of the mercantile classes, with th e ' excep ti on o f h ere and ioiOla a violent partisan of the Whig scluiol of politics, are of O h o, that a ministry without Sir Robert Peel as one of its Me% that if not its leader, would fail to secure public confidence; 9 ."" a da whatever change comes must be worse for the general " and prosperity of the country HALIFAX.—In the price of Wool there is no vari-- the rrices of both Pieces and Yarn remain firm. On Saturdalloi Hall exhibited some animation among't buyers generally' are looking ot for goods suitabl for the seon. 'h t ilt° LEICESTER u .—The Whitsun holidays haves interfere W lt beee usual course of business, the mills and warehouses havi l i 4 bear partially closed dur rig the first few days of the week. tr ade of some considerable orders for goods for the antie Plimr to having been contracted for, as we stated la s t week., ca n the opinion of dealers that wonted an d woo ll e n gee"' o rste• better bought now than they will be in the season trade. W t r eel yarns are generally advanced id p er lb. f rom the lotee.4, and current a few weeks since. E ng lish Wools are et'leiet• wetter skin wools are by no means plentiful in the sales le Fine colonial wools went r a th er l ower a t the late s London. done 6t NorrixonAlt.—& moderate amount of business was lly the end of last week in tini-hed goods of most kinds, n to lT, fancies of fresh patterns. Replacing these out of roue 7. 4 , e: is all that is doing with the makers of goods, as there 1170 no increase of confidence in prices, or continued deolnuactori, aspect of public affairs is generally felt here to be unsatit. r giSe and so far as trade is concerned, neutralises the T t 7; rv est: cheering effect of the weather, and promises of a fredet,,abd felt Our fine Yarns and Cops maintain their price, the cui,, to to. as " de' warps, &c., for Bradford, Coventry, and London, 4 ,, a te be the setaconinent, being very good. Nothing Is so xnue r u,..r t br sired to pattern and quality on the part of the E n ging! an d create_ ' lo ''' ti bl • of pfd owner ; these comnined, will alone Wye a reined , " Mug difficulties of our trade. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. June 16, 1R46.