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elteraturr. PO El' ICY DEATH SCENE u 0 Day When thou so 0 Sun, in ,net So tranq He cannot leave thee While fresh we And all around My deares That thou 1 Of Eden b Tarn back I cannot let thee rest 4 . One long look, tt For the wce 1 One mute loc " And, vri Of distra •outhf I br eternal sea, mpestuous si Glen, and gl , de, and sierit tree n t( Clouded even as they w Never r Troubled still, and still they ranged not— Wandered not, nor yet reposed I So I knew that he was c NOTICES , e's London MaL and Co us the half-yearly vole which certainly incr 15, Skinner-stree miscellaneous re and best works e. Lond Snow-h.l of this eases in merit as it progresses. For 3g it is certainly one of the cheapest rant. The illustrations are of a very years ago work of ten uld a fe 'e been nes the bigb character, and deemed worthy of admiration in price. The volume, a noble royal o four hundred pages, is charged a very low figure indeed Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : James M'Gla shan, 21, D'Oilier-street.—The present numb rate, in talent and interest. The first article, ' with our Younger Poets," is evidently the work of a man Evenings !though, perhaps, of highly poet _ "wanting the faculty of verse." Some of his prose ul, end his selections from the poetry P Shnnnnn poetry is very beaut under notice full of chapter x," is as g that is saying much in its behalf lery " contains an exc ' Our Portrait Gal nt sketch of Sir Henry Pottin- Mr. Carleton's " Black easing interest ; and the rage standard of periodical gees career, with an etching. Prophet" is continued with incr other articles are above the ave literature London : G. er this month contains Nickisson, 215, owe int, -ery striking cha Wakley and Dr Fraser's Magazine Regent-street,-4 resting pant and " C Bowring being . the parties sketched, is done in a more than usual masterly s Bla pres kwood's Magazine, Octob, —lt is refreshing in the Christopher Nortl ing in this tnagazii over, having put on his a t John's wild sports and the lands. The number contain: tity of matter interesting to t LI himself, which has recently been want _9l subject, more ing jacket to review St. ural history of the High- He is on a conge neral reader. Amor the contents of this clan laga, or England in tt btirton ; a Conde's Da ghter." iew of " H Sentimental Journey,' and " The " Elinor Travis" is concluded The characters of the' e too extrai very much to our satisfaction tale and the incident Elizabeth B Poems, by ed with great originality re marl of style and t whole Blackwooi The Fortunes of Torlogh O'Brien, No. VII M‘Glashen. D'Olier-street, Dublin, continues its Mirth interest. The characters of Tyrconnell and Myles Garrett are strongly drawn, and their joint villainy is the prominent subject of the present number. ception The Church of Englund Quarterly Review, Oct., London W. E. Painter, Strand. This excellent Re view has just come to hand and contains some valuahl articles, the first. in particular, a Review of Anderson Annals of the B must, how( perus r time to a careful 1 and not .ce of the whole number VARIETIES An American has tak with doors. This bee-hi patent for a bee-biv to be c th a hen- roost in such a man he doors at night, and tt removal of t orning will open them Music.—ln opp tion to all who denounce music as the pasties utive or creative, it is e.sanahls. an ss amusement, discon- of poetical imagioatior tightly felt, nor its practice, whether e long as it is treated as a mere ain meted from every other utteranc —.Henry F. Chorley INVESTIGATION the streets recentl drunken sailor, in riding through Ind himself seized with an irre- ante and to the complete sacrifice c Not being able to recover his c from suspecting that the cause with himself, he swore that the forelegs of t must be shorter than the bind, and actually stoi 11 horsemanship re of gravity, and far n any way connected steed measured them.—Montreal Herald. MR. DOMBEY'S ONE IDEA.—The earth Dombey and Son to trade in, and th made to give them light to float their sh weather ; wind as made for and moon were s were formed ;vs gave them promise of fair for or against their enterprises late a syst em of which they were the - centre. Common abbreviations to. s in their eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno Dombei—and Son.—Dombey and Son. On the death of Washington, Napoleon iscued the fo!- lowing order of the day to his soldiers :—" Washington is dead! This great man fought against tyranny: be established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds ; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality." Washington died m after he became Presi correspondence with Sir n this country, on possessed of many stare dent, he enter( - Isaac Head, Ga the subject of his ancest equality." r-King-of-Ar So muc GLAND AND FREEDOM.—In 1772 a negro, named Somerset, was arrested Ile Sharp brought the case before the 1 the Lord Mayor Poultry Compte lers Som men it r, however, in defiance of the 'd the slave end tor him away was brought against the ma was finally referred to t being tried, it e Judges, who, after s soon as a slave sets erun argument foot on Er es free Slaves c Receive our They touch o CHEAPNESS OE ;-Travelling in America is just as cheap as stopping at home, As the people are all more or less anti-renters, they live in board ing-houses; and as soon as they leave the expense ceases, and they begin boarding in a steamboat instead of on the shore. For instance, the steamers at Buffalo, the best of them go twice a-day to Chigago, 1,050 miles up the lakes, for £1 125.; and three Meals—good substantial meals— sides a splendid one halfpenny per mile as the voyage occ 6s. 6d. per day i SUNDAY IN PARlS.—English people generally think that in Paris the people attend church in the morning, and amuse themselves in the afternoon. No such thing. Almost every place of business is open from morning till night, and workmen pass along the streets to their various. occupations. Mechanics are employed as on any other day. Every place of amusement is thrown open—thea tres, ball-rooms, gaming-houses. No Englishman can discern the signs of the Sabbath, unless it is that the signs of amusement are more visible than on other days. llere is a Sabbath, good Christian people ! Heaven pre serve us from the like ! Tug AGE WE LIVE IN.—We live in an atmosphere of matter of fact, the glt dom allow to be. disl and dreariness of which we sel -1 by the genial warmth of the imaeinatiob. Everything is grounded upon calculation, and that of tt e lowest kind. Every step in our progress, every move in the journey of life, is made with utili t arian ns of a views alone—with the prospect only of temporal gain or loss. We plod our weary way along, not lit and sojourners in a world of trial, but like der country which is to be ours for ever, beyond which there is no hope. We rise up betimes in the morning, and late at night do we take our rest; and upon what are our waking thoughts and our last reflections employed but gain—mean and selfish gain ? The " age of chivalry is gone," and the " poetry of life has fled." Everything around us is hard, and dry, and calculating ; thus even our works of imagination partake of this strongly marked character of the present period, and exhibits its results in striking colours. Intellectual triumphs rather than appeals to the feelings or the imagination are sought after, and their pages more frequently display sparkling wit, pointed irony, and clever sarcasm, the feats of intellectual skill, than attempts to lay bare the recesses of the human heart, and to analyse those mighty secrets which it contains. — New Quarterly Revieu A LEGEND OF TH and manifold are the 1 SFIANNON.-01 course mystic .nds of this part of the river, nor is this old ruin without its share of such tradaionari lore. We were told one, not a little romantic. One of its he reditary chieftains had an only daughter, beautiful, as all such young ladies generally are. Many a doughty knight and prince came to the castle, bent on martial exploits— rather, perhaps, on errands of love and courtesy. Papa, at length, began to suspect something. and being very fond of his daughter, made one of the conditions for se curing her hand, that the inheritor of her castle should, fully caparisoned and mounted on a charger, precipitate himself from the top of the rock on which the castle is situated 1 This arrangement, it may be conceived, dis couraged more than one aspirant, and cooled down pretty considerably the ardour of our youthtul lovers. There lay the beautiful and winding Shannon, and on each side those rich messuages and lands for him who should first attempt the deed. Love, which has many traits in com mon with other things in the world, is also blind and in constant ! the little imp laughed and giggled, and was on the point of seizing the extinguisher to place it on his flickering flame, when one intrepid and passionate lover, of not very noble blood, armed to the teeth, dashed down the perilous descent, coming safely to the ground. and winning his lovely prize. —Dublin University Magazine. LORD ELLENBOROUGH AND THE BENCH.—The same honest inflexibility of purpose, which would not brook suspicion, marked the conduct of the Chief Justice, in the trial of a horse cause. to which a certain privy councillor was party. 'the right honourable baronet took his seat as of right on the bench, and ventured in the course of the trial to whisper a remark to his lordship. "If you again address me, Sir William," was the grave rebuke, not delivered in a whisper, " 1 shall place you in custody of the Marshal." The spirit of the man of rank died within him before the stern voce of the judicial dictator, 'nd he shortly stole away from the side cushions of the The instant submission paid by all ranks to the authority of a chief who ruled the court and its precincts with despo to have been once exhibited in a very ludicrous manne A storm of wind and rain had driven a regiment of West minster Volunteers to seek for shelter in the hall, when ;ic sway, " Whs t is the cause of that interruption ?" vehemently demanded Lord Ellenborough. "My Lad, it is a volun teer regiment exorcising, your Ludship." " Exor cising ! we will see who is best at that. Go, sir, and inform the regiment, that if it depart not instantly I shall commit it to the custody of the tipstaff." The battalion filed off, we are assured, at the first report, with unmili tary speed.—Lives of the Judges. AN EVENING IN BOHEMIA.—Reader, should you ever visit Prague, forget not to go to the Sonhein Inset : there little island has really a magical appearance on a fine au tumn evening, when, at the cool hours, numbers of well. dressed, cheerful people sit in the open air, under the lit tle grove of pollard chestnuts, and regale themselves and their friends with ices subs ntial suppers may also be bad. As the evening draws in, lamps and chandeliers, suspended from the trees, add a beauty to the scene, and it assumes the most friendly and social aspect. Should you prefer it, you can , paths and beds of flowers ; or on the edge of it, close to the water, guarded by a row of trees, growing on the brink, you may choose a resting-place. Through the stems and branches, some of thee 3 dipping into the water, brightly gleams the Moldau, quivering in the sun's de clining rays, and the eye then, finding tch the changing hues and softening td water in the distance, while the heart an opening, may look Out afar, and we blue of land muEee on futurity _ leanwhde are heard, played with the greatest precision and beauty, the finest overtures and sparkling polkas—these last not the dull imitation fashion has lately produced, but the true children of thesoil, cow. bining so strangely sadness and mirth—Sehnsucht and Heiterkeit—that one knows not which predominates. I should be inclined to say the former, for I ❑ever listened to these tunes without feeling triste. They are singular productions; there is so much expression) of feeling in them. they wind into the recesses of the heart as the chang ing passages return again and again, and one could sit and r.—Fraser's 1-1 ERON.• hABITS OF TN sir with outstretched wings heron is a noble and sails quietly through the slow flight ; but nothing gnified than her appearance a ly chases the jackdaw or hooded crow who is car rying off her egg, and darting rapidly round the angles and corners of the rocks. Now find then every heron raises head and looks on the al as the peregiine falcon, with pid and direct flight, passes their crowded dominio built on the rock but intent on his own nest, some little way further on, the hawk takes no notice of his long legged neighbours, who soon settle down again in their at titudes of rest. The kestrel-hawk frequents the same part of the river, and lives in amity with the wood-pigeons that breed in every cluster of ivy which clings to the rocks Even that bold and fearless enemy of all the igeon r Irds of the wood-pige her seasons such del ; and you see these birds (at all y enemies) passing each other in their way to and fru from their respective nests in perfect peace and amity It has seemed to me that the sparrow- quently enter into amutual compact against the crows and jackdaws, who are constantly on the look-out for the eggs of all other birds. The hawk appears to de.pend on the vigilance of the wood-pigeon to warn him of the approach nd then the brave little warrior sal- of these marauders lies out, and is not satisfied till he has driven the crow to a safe distance from the nests of himself and his more peace al,lc ally. At least in TIO other way can I account for these two birds so very frequently breeding not only in the same range of rock, but within two or three yards of each —JVild Sports and Nat. Hist. of the Highland••. Rl9. other.— we came to loggerheads with our Yankee cousins, and they walked into Canada, expecting, as they now would, to walk over it, they soon found that they were to take very little by their motion. The whole number of British troops then in the colony was under two thousand four hundred men. Upper Canada was comparatively a wil derness, occupied by a few scattered labourers, difficult to ' organise into militia, and including no class out of which officers could be made. Yet, even with this slender oppo sition, how did the invaders fare? Where were the glo rious results so confidently anticipated ? Let the defeat at Christler's farm, the rout and heavy loss at Queens town, the surrender of General Hall with his whole army and the territory o Michigan, reply to the question. And to-day how do matters stand ? " Within the last twenty years, several entire Scottish clans, under their chiefs— M'Nabs, Glengarys, and others, worthy of their warlike ancestors—have migrated hither. Hardy and faithful men from the stern hills of Ulster, and fiery but kind-hearted j peasants from the south of Ireland, with sturdy honest i yeomen from Yorkshire and Cumberland, have fixed their homes in the Canadian forests. These immigrants, with out losing their love and reverence for the crown and laws of their native country. have become attached to their adopted land, where their stake is now fixed,and are ready to defend their properties and their government against foreign invasion or domestic treason." The militia, com posed in a great part of the excellent materials just enu merated, is the nominal strength of 140,000 men. Of these a fourth might take the field, without their absence se riously impeding the commerce and industry of the coun try.. The Canadian arsenals are well supplied, and nearly eight thousand rtgulcr troops occupy the various garri sons. Quebec, with its strong fortifications and imposing citadel, may bid defiance to any force that could be brought against it from the States ; important works have been erected upon the island of Montreal; Kingston and its adjacent forts would require a large army and correspond ing naval force to subdue it ; Toronto would give the in vaders some trouble. Defensive works exist along the frontier of Lower Canada. In no way has the security of rues be overlooked one measure whose ado A PROOF THAT A MAN CAN BE HIS OWN GRAND FATHEB..—There was a widow anti her daughter-in-law, and a man and his son. The widow married the son, and the daughter the old gentleman. The widow was there fore mother to her husband's father, and, consequently, arandmother to her own husband. They bad a son, to whom she was great grandmother ; now, as the son of a great grandmother must be either a grandfather or great uncle, this boy was one or the other. He was his own grandfather! This was the case with a boy at school at Norwich.—Hood's Magazine. TEA.—The chemical constituents of tea are—volatile oil, tannic acid, and theine ; the other constituents are those commonly found in the leaves of vegetables. '1 he tea owes its smell, and part of its effects to its volatile oh. The tannic acid blackens the salts of iron, as the tannic acid of oak. The theine is the most remarkable constituent. Peligot has lately discovered in tea a larger quantity of theine, besides some caseine, both of which are azotised substances. The use of cat bonate of soda is advantageous in the preparation of tea, as it is in that of coffee ; it in creases the power of drawing the extract out of the leaves, makes the infusion stronger, and gives it a better taste. In the ashes of tea the author found oxide of iron and ar gilla, and draws from this circumstance the conclusion, that the shrub grows and thrives on ferruginous and ar gillaceous soils, which are also in other respects favourable to the formation of ammonia, and of the azotised caseine and theine. In using tea, most persons only consume those parts which are to be extracted by water, particu larly the etherial_oil, the tanuate of theine, gum, and most of the soluble salts. But the tea is not exhausted by a single infusion in boiling water; at least one-third of the soluble constituents remain in the leaves, with the greatest part of the caseine. Carbonate of soda dissolves the caseine, and therefore materially increases the strength of the beverage. The theine is composed of eight atoms of carbon, four atoms of nitrogen, ten atoms of hydrogen, and two atoms of oxygen. In those countries where tea is generally takeu (as Fngland and Holland), diseases of relaxation and emmoltition prevail, particularly among the female sex. Tea considerably increases the sensibility of the whole nervous system, and relaxes the digestive canal; but it certainly possesses some nutritive power, in conse quence of containing two azotised substances—theine and caseine. The increased secretion of urea and bile, subse quent to its use, shows its medicinal effect. The Chinese use the tea leaves as an emetic. Fresh tea acts, according to Percival, like opium and henbane on the nerves, and like foxglove on the function of the heart and arteries: Those men who ate engaged in unpacking tea are very liable to become paralytic; the exhalations of tea produce headache, giddiness, &c. Vessels of porcelain are the best for extracting the constituents of tea; and tin boxes should always be used for 'reserving it.—Chanabers's Journal. HONG KONG AS A PLACE OF TRADE.—We have taken some pains to make ourselves acquainted with the capabilities of Bong Kong, and with the circumstances connected with its being chosen as a British settlement. It is situated in the neighbourhood of an immense trade, and has a magnificent harbour. These two facts are in disputable, and every body can appreciate their impor tance. Mr. Davison, in a work of much interest, lately published, entitled " Trade and Travel in the . Far East, and who was for twelve months at Hong-Kong. says that " as a depot for goods intended for the Chinese mar ket, I conceive the situation of Hong Kong to be unri valled." As a decisive proof of the eligibility of Hong Kong as a place of trade in the eyes of the Chinese them selves, he mentions that some of them have paid immense sums for ground on which to build stores there. In re gard to climate, there can be no doubt that it has proved unfavourable, but this disadvantage is shared by Chusan, the only other place named as suitable for our settlement, and probably by any locality along the coast which could be thought of for such a purpcse. Much of the unhealthi ness of all these places seems referable to temporary and superficial causes—to paludal miasma, exhalations from deserted rice grounds, as well as from naturally swampy spots in the ravin s, and from the brushwoods growing and rotting there. This we gather from the important work of Dr. Wilson, inspector of our naval hospitals and fleets in China, lately published, and entitled " Medical Notes on CLina." The writer holds (p. 164) that acci. rental circumstances have helped to fix on the climate of Hong Kong, at the commencement of its colonial history, a much worse character than it will be found to deserve. One main ground arises from his remark, that there ap pear to be in China great periodic physical movements— times of exacerbation of disease, with long intervals of remission ; and that the accumulation of the causes of endemic being now discharged, a period of comparative immunity will follow. It may thus be that our first ap. pearance in China synchronized with a cycle of disease, and that attention being directed to the removal of excit ing causes, the climate will not be found permanently un favourable to Europeans. There appears to be no reason to blame the government for selecting Hong Kong as the site of our English colony, and none, certainly,for reflect ing on our envoy in regard to that transactiop. The choice rested between this place and Lhusan. It will be remembered what an outcry there then was against the latter place, on the ground of its unhealthiness. It ought also to be known that Hong Kong was selected by Mr. Eliot, the predecessor of Sir Henry Pottinger, and that the latter found many costly public works erected and in progress there, and large sums of money expended both publicly and privately on the island. In this state of af fairs, Sir Henry Pottinger referred the choice of the place for our settlement to the ministers at home, stating the comparative advantages of the two places under conside ration, Chusan and [long Kong, and on what was, we believe, a just estimate of their merits, the government decided for Hong Kong.—Dublin University Magazine. TDB BADGER.—Notwithstanding the persecutions arld indignities that he is unjustly doomed to suffer.,lJuAintmo that he Is far more respectable in his habits than wegene , rally consider him to be. " Dirty as a badger," " stink ing as - a badger," are two sayings often repeated, but quite inapplicable to him. As far as we can learn of the domestic economy of this animal when in a state of na ture, he is remarkable for his cleanliness—his extensive burrows are always kept perfectly clean, and free from all offensive smell; no filth is ever found about his abode; every thing likely to offend bis olfactory nerves is carefully removed. I, once, in the north or Scotland, fell in with a perfect col. ny of badger's ; they had taken up their abode in an unfrequented range of wooded rocks, and appeared to have been little interrupted in their possession of them. The footpaths to and from their numerous boles were bea ten quite hard ; and what is remarkable and worthy of note, they had different small pits dug at a certain distance from their abodes, which were evidently used as recepta cles for all offensive filth ; every other part of their colony was perfectly clean. A solitary badger's hole, which 1 once had dug out, during the winter season, presented a curious picture of his domestic and military arrangements ; a hard and long job it was for two men to achieve, the pas sage here and there turned in a sharp angle round some projecting corners of rock, which he evidently makes use of when attacked, as points of defence, making a stand at ,ny of these angles, where a dog could not scratch to en - perture, and fighting from behini his stone but tress. After tracing out a long winding passage, the workmen came to two branches in the hole, each leading to good-sized chambers ; in one of these was stored a con siderable quantity of dried grass, rolled up into balls as large as a man's fist, and evidently intended as food ; in the other chamber there was a bed of soft grass and leaves —the sole inhabitant was a peculiarly large old dog-bad ger. Besides coarse grasses, their food consists of various roots ; amongst others, I have frequently found about their hole the bulb of the common wild blue hyacinth. Fruit of all kinds and esculent vegetables form his repast, and I fear that he must plead guilty to devouring any small animal that may come in his way, alive or dead ; though, not being adapted for the chase, or even for any very skilful strategy of war, I do not suppose that he can do much in catching an unwounded bird or beast. Eggs are his delight, and a partridge's nest with seventeen or eighteen eggs must affurd him a fine meal, particularly if he can surprise and kill the hen-bird also; snails and worms which he finds above ground during his nocturnal rambles, are likewise included in his bill of fare. I was one summer evening walking home from fi,hing in Loch Ness, and having occasion to fasten up some part of my tackle, and also expecting to meet my keeper, I sat down on the shore of the loch. I remained some time, enjoying the lovely prospect : the perfectly clear and unruffled loch lay before me, reflecting the northern shore in its quiet water. The opposite banks consisted, in some parts, of bright green sward, sloping to the water's edge, and studded with some of the most beautiful birch-trees in Scotland ; several of the trees spreading out like the oak, and with their rag ged and ancient looking bark resembling the cork-tree of Spain—others drooping and weeping over the edge of 'the water in the most lady-like and elegant manner. Parts of the loch were edged in by old lichen covered rocks ; while farther on a magnificent scar of red stone rose perpendi cularly from ►he water's edge to a very great height. So clearly was every object on the opposite shore reflected in the lake below, that it was difficult, nay impossible, to distinguish where the water ended and the land commenced —the shadow from the reality. The sun was already set, but its rays still illuminated the sky. It is said that from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step ;—and I was just then startled from my reverie by a kind of grunt c!ose to me, and the apparition of a small waddling grey animal, who was busily employed in hunting about the grass and stones at the edge of the loch ; presently ano ther, and another, appeared in a little grassy glade which ran down to the water's edge, till at last I saw seven of them busily at work within a few yards of me, all coming from one direction. It at first struck me that they were some farmer's pigs taking a distant ramble, but I shortly saw that they were badgers, come from their fastnesses ra ther earlier than usual, tempted by the quiet evening, and by a heavy summer shower that was just over, and which had brought out an infinity of large black snails and worms, on which the badgers were feeding with good ap petite. As I was dressed in grey and sitting on a grey rock, they did not see me, but waddled about, sometimes close to me : only now and then as they crossed my track they showed a slight uneasiness, smelling the ground, and grunting gently. Presently a very large one, which I took to be the mother of the rest, stood motionless for a mo ment listening with great attention, and then giving aloud grunt, which seemed perfectly understood by the others, she scuttled away, followed by the whole lot. I was soon joined by my attendant. whose approach they had beard long before my less acute ears gave me warning of hie coming. In trapping other vermin in these woods, w e constantly caught badgers—sometimes several were found in the traps ; I always regretted this, as my keeper was most unwilling to spare their lives, and I fancy seldom did so. His arguments were tolerably cogent, I must confess. When I tried to persuade him that they were quite harm less, he answered me by asking, " Then why, sir, have they got such teeth, if they don't live, like a dog or fox, on flesh ?—and why do they get caught so often in traps baited by rabbits ?" I could not but admit that they had most carnivorous-looking teeth, and well adapted to act on the offensive as well as defensive, or to crunch the bones of any young bare, rabbit, or pheasant that came in their way."—Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands. his is less than the author of " Hochelaga" strongly urges, whose utility is obvious, and we trust in due time to see carried out. This is the construction of a railroad, connecting the whole of British America; commencing at Halifax, and extend ing, by Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, and Toronto, to ..,ance of the Amherstburg and the far west. The essential portion of moon as seen in the great telescope of Lord Rosse, and I the line is that from Halifax to Quebec, by which,' when described by the Rev. Dr. Scoresby , of Bradford :—" It the St. Lawrence is closed by ice, troops might be for. appeared like a globe of molten silver, and every object of warded in a couple of days to the latter city. In the the extent of a hundred yards was quite visible. Edi- spring of 1847, we are told, the canals will be completed flees, therefore, of the size of York Minster, or even of which are to open the great lakes to our fleets. For sum the ruins of Whitby Abbey, might be easily perceived if mer time that may suffice. But the five months' winter they hid existed. But there was no appearauze of any- must not be overlooked. And apart from the military thing of that nature; neither was there any indication of view of the case, the benefit of such a railway would be the existence of water or of an atmosphere. There was a enormous. It will strengthen the intimacy between this Vast number of extinct volcanoes, several miles in breadth ; splendid colony and the seat of government : the emigrant through one of them there was a line in continuance of from home, and the produce from the west, will then pass one, about one hundred and fifty miles in length, which through British waters and over British territories only, ran in a straight direction like a railway. The general ap- without enriching the coffers of a foreign state. The Ame pearance, however, was like one vast ruin of nature; and ricans, with their great mercantile astuteness, are making many of the pieces of the rock, driven ont of the voica- every effort to divert the trade of Canada into their cban noes, appeared to be laid at' various distances." The nels, and to make us in every way dependent on them for doctor says he expects it will soon be possible to daguer- our communications. The drawback-bill, by which the reotype the image of the mo on upon the speculum— custom-duties on foreign goods are refunded on their pass which cannot be done at present, as the moon i s not sta- ing into our provinces, has already been attended with tionary ; but the earl contemplates a piece of mechanism great success in obtaining for them a portion of our carry to move the telescope to a certain distance, with a motion ing trade, especially during the winter, when our great corresponding to the motion of the moon.—Athencetrm, highway of the St. Lawrence is closed.—Blackwood. .nd lodging included ense is abou ship of the lin, railroad fare is one penny per —Rubio's Rambles. than our steamers , first cl THE MOO be apr dreary, Ice a r World," b ht when leavi but they changed not— )n : T. B. Shar esting miscellany We have before THE LiVERPOOL STANDAR6. SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS. (From a paper read before the Archeological Society, of Sussex, by Edwin Keet, Esq.) The consideration 'of the various modes of sepulture. and the forms and ceremonies of different nations used in the interment of the dead, is a subject, if not the most Pleasing, yet replete with interest to the Antiquary and lover of the history of past events. "After life's fitful fever, we sleep well ;" and Shakspere says "our little life is rounded with a sleep." Volumes have been written upon marriage ceremonies, funeral processions, and the modes of interment of the dead by different nations. I shall, in this brief paper, enumerate a few of the most striking impressive modes of sepulture, beginning with the Cromlech, Cairn, and the Barrow, as most peculiar to the islands of Britain. The Cromlech, of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Kit's Coty House, in Kent ; those in Cornwall, Wales, in Ireland, Scotland, and many parts of the Continent, are probably the most ancient modes of sepulture of which we possess any relics. A variety of opinions are, however, indulged in regarding their origin and end. One affirms they are altars from Druidical sa crifices; another avows they are sepulchral monuments, where the once mighty now repose in death. A third as serts that they are, more particularly that at Stonehenge, immovable observatories for astronomical observations. These conflicting opini ins, like those entertained upon the uses of the Round Towers, will probably never be fixed satisfactorily to all parties ; and if we consider how vague and uncertain many of our conjectures are upon the ancient Etruscans, their monuments, sepulchral caves, and Cyclopean walls, I know not why our gigantic Crom lech may not be part of their history, power, and majestic skill, now passed away for so many ages. The Cairn is more open to satisfactory elucidation than the Cromlech : these abound more in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland than in Engl,nd. Some of these vast heaps, these monumen tal piles, upon which the passing traveller casts his solitary stone in token of respect for the dead, had one flat slab upon their apex, upon which sometimes fires were kindled as beacons ; at others, sacrifices offered to the manes of the deceased. Warlike instruments, ornaments of the dress, urns containing bones and ashes, have been fre quernly discovered on Cairns, as well as in the vicinity of Cromlechs. And when Messrs. Rolfe, Roach, Smith, Fairholt, and myself, explored in the Isle of Thanet, some Saxon graves, which had been cut into by the Can• - terbury and Ramsgate branch of the South-Eastern and Dover Railway, we came across a small Cairn of great antiquity. Around the head of the horse, the antlers of the deer, and many other bones, fragments of many urns, &c., were placed a vast number of huge boulder stones of flint. in a circular form, enclosing the urns, fragments of which had the Romish potters' names upon them, mixed up with the bones of the animals which had probably been immolated upon this rude shrine. Up to the present time, the Scottish Highlander repeats the old proverb in token of respect, " I will add a stone to your Cairn ;" but the Welshman says, when he imprecates, " May the stone of your cairn lay heavy on your head." Some au thors have supposed Cairns to have been rude temples or mounds for religious worship and sacrifice, as well as for monumental tombs. Barrows were used by the ancient Greeks. Homer alludes to those erected as tributes of affection to the memory of departed heroes !! Herodotus describes the barrow of Cruesus, King of Ly dia, as a vast mound of earth raised on a lofty basement of many huge stones. This grand monumental barrow was 200 feet high, and three-quarters of a mile in circum ference. Many smaller ones were in its vicinity ; some ornamented with the figures of animals, and others with pillars with inscriptions. Mr. Jefferson discovered some very large ones in America, with multitudes of human bones. Stackhouse, from his extensive observations, thought barrows in England and Scotland were admirably adapted, from their situation and eminence, for direct and speedy communication, without impediment or interrup tion. This favours the opinion of their being also used as beacons, with materials kept ready on their tops for ignition. Sir Walter Scott vividly describes the firing of these beacons from hill to hill. The Egyptians, Greeks, and early Christians buried their dead in catacombs. Those in Egypt, near Thebes, have a prodigious number of entrances, and a countless number of catacombs. When I was in Egypt I witnessed the blasting by gun powder of many Greek and early Christian catacombs ; this idle destruction was for the purpose of procuring masses of stone to finish the fortifications of Alexandria. These explosions laid bare a most beautiful Greek sarco phagus, which was got out with slight damage; and my son took a sketch of it—the figures were male and female gracefully reposing under the palm tree, with heads of Apollo and other deities. The catacombs without the walls of Rome, by the kindness of Mr. Gibson, the sculp tor, 1 have also explored. I was under ground with a party of ladies and gentlemen nearly two hours, the en trance being so small that only one person could proceed at a time. We soon found, as we advanced, long streets or passages full of catacombs, the bones completely turned into earth, literally, when we touched them, to dust ; these streets of catacombs we supposed to have extended more than a mile-and-a-half, indeed they appeared like a small city of refuge for the early Christians, where the living and dead alike escaped persecution and destruction by the tyrants of Rome. The subjects of tombs is full of interest. The Persian tomb is a circular building, open at the top, about sixty feet diameter, within this is a well of eighteen or twenty feet diameter ; around this well the earth is piled up 25 feet in height. There are three par titions in the Persian tomb—one each for men, women, and children, the bodies are left to feed the vultures, af terwards the bones are collected and thrown into the well by the friends of the deceased. Subterranean passages leading to the well allow of the occasional removal of the bones to prevent its filling. The ancient sepulchres of Russia and Siberia are per fect tumuli of great height—they are encompassed with a high wall of large stones placed in an erect position. The tombs of the Turks and Moors are generally of a simple form, except the shiek or priest's tomb, which is a hum ble imitation of the Caliph's tomb; the city of Caliph' tombs, interest I climbed a tower of one of these magnificent tombs, and the prospect was quite enchanting, the whole city of Cairo, Boulac, the Pyramids, the hills were all be fore me in vast perspective. No traveller should cross the desert on the overland route to India without seeing the Caliph's tombs, but they are generally so hurried off from Alexandria on their overland route to India, that EXTRACTS FROM MR. DICKENS'S WORK, "DOMBEY AND SON." INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRD Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully dispcsed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if h's constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-fqty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made min, too stern and pompous in appearance to be prepos Son wis very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniable fine infant, somewhat crushed and spotty in his general effect, as yet. On the brow of Dombey, Time and his brother Care had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in good time—remorseless twin they are for striding through their human forests, no•ching as they go—while the countenance of Son was crossed and recrossed with a thousand little creases, which the same deceitful Time would take delight in smoothing out and wearing away with the flat part of his scythe, as a preparation of the surface for his deeper operations. Dombev, exulting in the long-looked for event, jingled and jingled the heavy watch-chain that depended from below his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire. Son with his little fists curled up and clenched, seemed, in his feeble way, to be squaring at existence for having come upon him so unexpectedly. "The house will once again, Mrs. Dombev," said Mr. Dombey, •' be not only in name but in fact Dombey and Son ; Dom-bey and Son !" PROFESSIONAL QUACKERY Doctor Parker Peps, one of the Court Physicians, and a man of immense reputation for assisting at the increase of great families, was walking up and down the drawing room with his hands behind him, to the unspeakable ad miration of the family surgeon, who had regularly puffed the case for the last six weeks among all his patients, friends, and acquaintances, as one to which he was in hourly expectation day and night of being summoned, in conjunction with Doctor Parker Peps. " Well, Sir," said Doctor Parker Peps, in a round, deep, sonorous voice, muffled for the occasion, like the knocker ; " do you find that your dear lady is at ali roused by your visit ?" " Stimulated, as it were ?" said the family practitioner, faintly, bowing at the same time to the Doctor, as much as to say, " Excuse my putting in a word, but this is a valuable connexion." Mr. Dombey was quite discomfited by the question. He had thought so little of the patient, that he was not i❑ a condition to answer it. He said that it wouhl be a sa tisfaction to him if Doctor Parker Peps would walk up stairs again. "Good ! We must not disguise from you, sir," said Doctor Parker Peps, " that there is a want of power in Her Grace the Duchess—l beg your pardon; I confound names; I should say in your amiable lady. That there is a certain degree of languor, and a general absence of elas ticity, which we would rather--not—" " See," interposed the family practitioner, with another inclination of the head. " Quite so," said Doctor Parker Peps, " which we would rather not see. It would appear that the system of Lady Cankaby—excuse me: I should say of Mrs. Dom bey : I confuse the names of cases—" " So very numerous," murmured the family practitioner —" can't be expected I'm sure--quite wonderful if other wise—Doctor Parker Peps's West End practice—" " Thank you," said the Doctor, " quite so. It would appear, I was observing, that the system of our patient has sustained a shock, from which it can only hope to rally by a great and strong—" "And vigorous," murmured the famly practitioner. " Quite so," assented the Doctor—" and vigorous ef fort. Mr. Pilkins, here, who from his position of medical adviser in this family—no one better qualified to fill that position, I am sure." "Oh !" murmured the family practitioner. " Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley !'" " You are good enough," returned Doctor Parker Peps, "to say so. Mr. Pilkins, who, from his position, is best acquainted with the patient's constitution, in its normal state (an acquaintance very valuable to us in forming our opinions on these occasions), is of opinion with me, that nature must be called upon to make a vigorous effort in this instance; and that, if our interesting friend the Countess of Dombey—l beg your pardon ; Mrs. Dombey —should not be—" " Able," said the family practitioner. "To make that effort successfully," said Doctor Parker " then a crisis might arise, which we should both sincerely deplore." With that, they stood for a few seconds looking at the ground. Then, on the motion—made in dumb show—of Doctor Parker Peps, they went up stairs ; the family practitioner opening the room door for that distinguished professional, and following him out with most obsequious politeness. MR. WAKLEY'S PERSEVERANCE AND STYLE OF SPEAKING. (From Fraser's Magazine.) An amusing instance of Mr. Waidey's determined per- which has just closed. All the public business had been disposed of ; the paper containing the notices of the pro ceedings for the day was, with one exception, a blank ; and but f'w members were present in the house. Among them were the Home Secretary and his underlines, and a few members notorious for their approval of the Poor law. Sir George Grey was observed, every now and then, to turn an anxious eye to the green door, evidently hoping that some one would or would not make his appearance. The explanation was found in the notice-paper. The one case of the ilaydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum. This was the shadow that darkened their fair prospect of a holiday. But Mr. Wakiey might be persuaded or cajoled into giv ing way, or he might not come; and so the threatened exposure, which the government had reason to dread, might not be made. At length in came Mr. Wakley, who strode up to his seat with an awful air of determination. they get but a passing glimpse of the obelisk of Cleopa- Now the play began. First some personal friend of th, tra, and Pompey's majestic pillar, with its nearly defaced hon. member, and supporter of the Poor-law, began talk- Greek inscription. At Anchiale was once seen this in- ing to him in a fr'endly way, urging how inconvenient it scription upon the tomb of Sardanapalus, which king, with would be thus, at the very last gasp of the session, to his luxuriant magnificence, called forth the genius of our bring forward a long series of charges. But Mr. Wakley Byron,—" Sardinapalus built Anchiale and Tarens in one only shook his head and knit his brows, folding his arms day; go, traveller, eat, drink, and be merry, the rest is with a sly smile, as much as to say, No, it won't do. nothing." Ihe catacombs of Syracuse are full of recesses This shot having missed, Sir George Grey went across to and chambers, with a flat circular roof and opening to the immovable tribune, and, with the blandest air of aris admit light at the top. In Malta they are cut out of the tocratic condescension, put to him how extremely outW rock in galleries; and in Syria and Palestine massive stone would be his threatened proceeding; that there was doors, moving on pivots, close in the dead. Various also scarcely a house to listen to him ; that the country would are the opinions of the learned regarding the Pyramids of overlook the case ; that the doors of the Home-office Egypt. It is certain that they have contained sarcophagi. would be open to him ; that'every justice should be done, Herodotus thought the form emblematical of human life, and so on : but it was of no avail. Even Sir James Gra certain it is the pyramidal shape is best calculated for dam could not have succeeded. Then how much less Sir length of duration ; some have thought them to be erected George Grey ! The honourable member was still obdu for astronomical purposes, while some French philoso- rate. Another scheme was then tried. A message came pliers have been of of opinion they are mere standards of down from the House of Lords, demanding a conference. measure. Denon favoured the latter opinion, while Vol- It was the Home Secretary's duty to name the members. ney thought the ancient Egyptians acquainted with elec. When the list was read, it was observable that the Speaker tricity, and that as Egypt suffered from drought, and as pronounced the name of Mr. Wakley with peculiar em immense masses of vapours pass from the Mediterranean phasis and unction ; for he, too, would not have been to the mountains of Abyssinia, these gigantic artificial sorry had the honourable member relented. One by one mountains might interrupt their passage, and cause rain the members went up to the Lords, Sir George Grey to descend upon the parched plains. The conjecture himsef at their head ; but Mr. Wakley, who seemed irate might in some degree receive sanction from the immense j at what he supposed a manoeuvre to defeat his object, figure of the Sphinx, which not being a commemorative flatly refused to stir. Ile was afraid lest in his absence monument, more connected with the rites of sepulture, some scheme should be devised to defeat him. Folding was probably intended to denote the two signs of the Zo- his arms, he stretched himself at full length on his seat, diac, the Virgin and the Lion, through which the Sun saying, in reply to calls on him to go, " No, no, I shall passes during the innundation of the Nile. lose my chance !" And there he remained obdurate, But among all the various modes of sepulture I have alike to the tetchy remonstrances of the Home Secretary witnessed abroad, perhaps next to the almost unimpaired and the earnest pleading of his friends. Constituted as grandeur of the Egyptian Pyramids and catacombs should the House of Commons is, it required no ordinary amount be considered the Etruscan sepulchres hewn out of a rock, of moral courage thus to persist in the discharge of a which are seen only by torch light, outside the walls of troublesome and self-imposed duty. At last he rose and Voltera. Here, in this rock, closed in by a single slab of made a speech of several hours' duration, full of extraor stone at the narrow entrance, with a pillar of the natural, dinary details, and his reward came in due time when the rock left standing in the centre, you see three tiers of sar- newspaper reports appeared, and it was found that he had cophagi, composed of alabaster, marble, and stone, all given a last kick to the Poor-law Commission. A man with rudely carved, but bold figures of the deceased, de- with such perseverance in a cause where the credit is °fun scribing his profession, or her loving, amiable and mater- in inverse ratio to the trouble, must succeed, and deserves nal quality. The poet is gracefully reclining, with his el. to do so. bow leaning on a pile of books; the lawyer and senator Mr. Wakley's style of speaking is the most simple and pleading, with divers other alegorical and illustrative de- unaffected. lie has been too busily engaged in the hard signs. In these rich, but externally unnoticeable and work of life to have had much time to bestow on oratory. humble burial caves, the Etruscans' last hi , torical teonu- He has the appearance of a provincial, and has also the meats escaped the ravages of the haughty Romans, who accent of one ; the associations thus excited still further little knew, as they strode over the subjugated soil of I negative the idea of polish or preparation. You might their more humble predecessors, the monumental trea- i fancy, but for the knowledge of passing events, not less sures that were tranquilly reposing beneath their warlike than of subjects of higher order, which his speeches dis and world conquering tread. It is something to have play, that he was some country farmer suddenly smitten been at the top of that—the loftiest pyramid—to have with a passion for speech-making. The structure of his gazed from the top of St. Peter's upon the vast Campagna speeches is quite inartificial, and the language usually the where the tombs of Crecilia, Metellu of Plautus, the E most simple and colloquial of every-day life. It is plain, ratii and Curatii, and a number of other vast sepulchral even homely, without being inelegant ; a manliness of monuments, stand in their lovely grandeur, like giant I sentiment and a quiet self-possession in the speaker, im skeletons of a departed world ; but you cannot gaze on part a kind of distsity to the most ordinary expressions. the tomb of Nero, the pyramidal monument to Caius Mr. Wakley does not so much make speeches, as deliver Cestius so near the strangers' burial ground, where Shelly I the thoughts which burden his mind on any given subject, and Keats, with so many other noble English, take their with frankness and sincerity. EMI hard words do not last rest in a foreign soil, without feelings of awe and hu- come offensively from him, such is his good-humour and mility, and how little our modes of perpetuating a recut- I the amenity of his disposition. Ile, constantly di s pl a ys lection of the venerated dead, compared with these, lip- ; great shrewdness of perception, unmasking the motives pear in our churches and churchyards. It is a subject of 'of opponents with a masterly power, and, at the same congratulation that the custom of interment in Christian time, with an avoidance of coarse imputation. Yet he churches, which began in the fourth century, by deposit- can be sarcastic when he chooses ; but his sarcasm is ing the clergy there, is now falling, happily, into disue- more in the hint conveyed, and in the knowing look of tude ; and it is a consummation devoutly to be wished, i face and tone of voice, than in any positively cutting ex that our churchyards may, like that remarkable and pie- i pressions. He handles the scalpel with delicacy and skill, turesque one of Dartford, in Kent, be made yet more never cutting deeper than is absolutely necessary. S ome beautiful and solemn, by planting cypress and other trees, of his " points" have, from time to time, told remarkably laying out walks, fixing seats, erecting monuments, like well ; such , for in stance, as that in w hich he described those of Pere le chaise, Kensal Green, St. James's at Li- the Whig ministry as being made of " squeezable " ma verpool, and the new cemetery at Gravesend, and many iterials. That one expression contributed considerably others. This is by far the preferable mode, than that our towards gaining for him the position he holds in the esti deceased friends should lie incold obstruction and to rot ma tion of the House of Com m ons. within the walls of populated cathedrals and churches , a i Upon the whole, Mr. Wakley contrasts favourably most unhealthy mingling of the quick with the dead. ' with his colleague in the representation of Finsbury. At Never shall I forget the impression felt at visiting the first sight he is not so captivatin g or prepossessing as M r. grand sublime cemetery, without the walls of Belogna , the Duncornbe, but he has more sterling stuff in him, and is, Campo Santa at Pisa, and the last resting place of Smol- in all probability, more to b e d epen d ed upon. Appear lett in the interesing necropolis at Leghorn—reqviescan t ances are against him ; they are i n M r. D uncom b e ' s fa vour.in pace. one may be allowed the term,—an innne , nt expression of EPIGRAM. a rm. Je_ countenance : the former has a peculiar habit of contract ing the eye-brows ; and a keen and restless eye and peer ing expression set you at first on your guard as against a scheming, designing man, not overburdened with scruples or with the milk of human kindness. But the longer Mr. Duncombe speaks, the less strong is the prestige in his favour, the more suspicious you grow that he is careless of everything except personal display and producing an effect. Mr. Wakley, on the other band, wins on you as he proceeds. The frown relaxes ; the face, which had been too pale for an earnest man, recovers its colour, and a good-humour or an evident sincerity propitiate favour and confidence. As has already been said, Mr. Wakley The following epigram in Latin and English was corn - Warden of by the Rev. Charles, Wordsworth, M.A. , of Trinity College, Perthshire, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the chapel by Sir John Gladstone : Mactus honore novo, proprio cognomine lretus Fundamenta domfls Virque Lapis que jacit. Quem Leetus lapis apse jacit, lapis auspice Imtus Stet, stet, in mteruum mactus honore novo. In honours new for high deserts arrayed , Gladstone, auspicious name, this basement laid. Glad stone, laid here by Gladstone's bounteous hand, Still blest with honours new, for ever—ever stand ! rather takes up questions for their own sake, Mr. Dun combe for his own. With the latter it is all holiday work and fun : Chartism is a capital stake to gamble with. True, he sometimes sails rather close to the wind, bat there is pleasure in the risk : it is like yachting in rough weather; tl.e excitement balances the danger. But with Mr. \Vakley, grievance -bunting is a very serious business. It is the occupation of his life. As his time is very valu able, he might do better with it than bestow it on the public; yet he works away harder than ever. He cer tainly makes greater sacrifices than Mr. Duncombe, if he does not win quite as muc h ep h emera l app l ause , or obtain it quite as easily. It may he urred that his patri otism is all prospective; at least, however, he pays down a heavy deposit. Upon the whole, tar), he has done much good, if, in the course of his career, he has also caused some evil. The errors of the Lancet, and the occasional violences of an enterprising demagogue determined to rise in the world, may be forgiven in the man who has done so much to unmask the minor tyrannies which oppress the pauper population of this country. A SCENE AT A GOVERNOR'S BALL A nice tale is told bow a member of the legislature of Washington showed himself to be quite au fait in high life in the great republic. We say nothing about the richness of the scene generally, a most graphic account of which is, I - owever, given in the New York Spirit of tit Times. The following is a goad extract:— " Hark ! the clatter of knives and forks is interrupted by the cry of 1 Waiter ! eh ! here, here boy—you feller— give us some of that ere pudding.' Dis here, Bar, am not pudding—it am de werr-, werry best of cream,' replied the sable attendant. ' Well, niver mind,' said the gentleman, just give some of it ;' whereupon helping himself to a plate full, and not finding a small spoon handy, or thinking it would take too much time, he put a tablespoon in requisition to facilitate despatch. The first spoonful was enough. Twisting and turning the cream from one side of his mouth to the other, yet still finding the cold undiminished, he resolved to try the dernier resort of ejecting it on the carpet. Look here.' exclaimed he to the waiter, ' just place this on the stove and get it warm, it is too d—d cold! You'll get all my teeth aching like the devil, and I should not wonder if I had a swelld face—a pretty condition that would be to speak on the Oregon question, to morrow.' Why, sar, dat am ice cream ! Put it on the stove and get it warm, I tell you No sooner said than done; the plate was put on the stove, which was heated as they well know how to do it when the quicksilver on the thermometer indicates its neighbourhood:o zero, and there left by the astonished black. After some minutes had elapsed, sambo was suon-ned to fetch ' that ere plate.' Why that aint what 1 gave you,' saluted the ears of the confounded waiter. Yes, sar, that um de cream,' replied he, as well as his bewildered faculties would let him. ' You be darned !—I gave you pudding, I did'nt give you cream nor custard. Where's that ar plate I gave you fust ?' ' Dat am the very identical plate as you had the honor of handing me in the first place, sar,' replied poor sambo. You git along, you son of darkness;' but so uncon trolable was the laughter, that no satisfactory explanation was given the worthy member from 0-." SPO RTING .1N TEL LIG ENCT CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING THURSDAY There was a tolerably numerous company. The first race was the Hootod Stake, which was won lov Mr. Tem pest nas Lucy, beating perpetual Motion and British Tar. Won easy. The Grand Stand Stake was won by Mr. Mostyn's f by Lanercost—L'Hirondelle beating c by D'Egville and Cha peau Rouge. Won by half a length. The Saracen's Head Handicap was won by Mr. W. Scott's Driffield, beating Pealwsinger, Laura, and two others. Won by two lengths. The Selling Stake was won by Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, beating 6ix. others. Heats. Won easy. FRIDAY The Mostyn Stake was won by Mr. T. Dawson's c by D'Egville, beating Sharston end Lanercost. Won easy. The Chester Handicap Stake was won by Mr. W. Smith's Master Downes, heating Romance, Spitbead, Patriot, The Prince, Erin-go-bragh, c by Touchstone-- Laura, and Factory Girl. Factory G , rl took the lead, with all the horses well up. Master Downes came up at the Ca.tle turn, and won cleverly by a length. Spithead was beat about the same distance by the second. The Helier Skelter Handicap was won by Mr. Meik lam's c by Touchsrone, beating Fair Rosamond, British Tar, Factory Girl, Lady Sara!), Alice, and Juvenal. Heats. \Vou cleverly. Oct. 6, 1846. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, TUESDAY. For the Buckenham Stakes Col. Peel's King of Naples received forfeit. The Hopeful Stakes was won by Col. Peel's Isis, beat nz Vice-Consul and five others. Won by a length. The Grand Duke Michael Stakes was won by Colonel by a length. Anson's lago, beating Sir Tattoo Match.—Auricula beat Leonard. WEDNESDAY. The Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sous each was won by Mr. Pemberton's Best Bower, beating Skeleton and African. Won by two lengths. Match—X29o, 'h ft—Lad Ordford's Blackie beat Sir J. tlawley's Humdrum. Won easy by a length. The Plate of £5O was won by Mr. Pemberton's Best Bower, b e ating Mount Callan, Beaumont, Glory, and . Won by a length. St. Leger Stakes was won by Lord E. R Nutleaf ssell's good race. g, beating, ootstool, Joy, and Tug Won by half - a length THURSDAY The Town Plate was won by Col. Synge's Mount Cal lan, beating Humdrum and Radulphus. Won by half a length Match, 100 sous., was won by Mr. Mostyn's Vice Con sul, beating Mack Cat by a beck. Alatch, 200 soya., 50 feet, was won by the Duke a Bedford's Paragon. beating Missed Stays. ,„ The Rutland Stake was won by Mr. Moystyn's, beat ing Docrine, f. by Hztman Platoff, and Palma. Won easy by a length A sweepstake of 5 sovs. each was won by Mr. Ford's The Attorney, beating Caen, Deer Chase, and Marble Maid. Won easy. The Queen's Plate was won by Mr. Moore's Wolf Dog, beating Bravissimo, Little Vulgar Boy, and Ohio. Won by a length. It is a " singular coincidence" that Holmes has ridden the third horse for four great races this year, viz. :—Bro cardo for the Derby and St. Leger, and Conspiracy for the Oaks and Great Yorkshire. THE ST. LEGER.—The value of these stakes, won by Mr. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes, is £3,475. It is calcu ated the owner won a further sum of £4,000 in bets. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE IST OCTOBER From Colburn's United Service Magazine.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the Depot of the Regiment is stationed.] Ist Life Guards—Windsor 2nd Ditto—Regent's Park Royal H.Guards—Hyde Park Ist Dragn Gds.—Birmingham 2d—Dublin. 43d—Dover_ 3d—Piershill. 44th—Belfast. 4th—Nottingham. 45th—Cape of Good Hope, I.NV sth—York. Reserve batt., M.Video 6th—Norwich. 46th—Canada; Chatham, 7th—C. G. Hope, Maidstone. 47th—Dublin. ist Dragoons—Ballincollig. 48th—Jamaica 2d—Dublin —Canterbury. -M ullingar. Malta ; Isle of Wight. — Reserve batt., Malta Dublin aa D ly . ; L C an h cl at ; h § a C m ha . thaul d—Bengal ; Maidstone . 5 49 0 5 t t i I h s i - - t ____ B G v e a a n i w t g , 52d—Quebec; Brecon. 4th—Dublin. iith—Longford. 7th Hussars—Dublin. 53d— Ben 0.0 ; Chatham. B th — Cahir. 54th—Gibraltar ; Kinsale. 9th Lancers—Bengal ;'.Midst. 55th—Cork. - 10th Hussars—Bombay. 56th—Bury, - (Lancashire.) 11th II ussars—Coventry. 57th—Chatham .1 12th Lancers— Hounslow. 58th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham 13th I.t. D'goons—Newhridge. 59th—Limeriek 15th Hussars 16th Lancers. chat Madras; M'ston ;26 hatt.)-4Canada ; Chatham Bengal ,* Maidst 61st—Bengal ; Chatham. Grenadier Guard ;, (Ist batt.) 163c1- Madras ; Chatham . .. IN inchester. 64th—Dub.in. (2.d batt.)—St: John's Wood 65th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham• ra. (3d hatt.)—Tower. 66th—Gibraltar ; TemPlern ° - Coldstream Guards, (Ist batt.) 67th - Cork. St. George's Bar 68th—Dublin. -- (2d batt.)—Portman-st. Bass 69th—Manchester. Scotch FusileerGrds—(lst batt) 70th—Templemore Wi g ht. Wel ington Barr. 71st —Barbadocs ; I. of batt., Canada. (2d batt)—Windsor. Reserve Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Trinidad ; 72d—Gibraltar s Nenngh. Newbri.lge. 73d—Monte Video—Buttevant (2d batt.)—Edinburgh. 74th—A berdeen. 2d Foot—Gosport. 75th—Athlone. 3d—Portsmouth. ;6th—Fort George, N.B. 4th—Madras; Chatham. 77th—Halifax; Fermoy. sth—Devonport. 78th—Bombay ; Chatham. 6th—Cape Good Elope. 79th—Gibraltar; Castlebar. 7th—St. Vincent; Newry. 80th—Bengal; Chatham Bth--Bombay, Chatham. 81st—Canada ; Jersey. 9th—Bengal; Chatham. 82d—Canada; Spike Island 10th—Bengal ; Chatham. 83d—Dublin. 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham. 84th—Madras; Chatham. 12th—Mauritius ; Isle Wight. 55th—Buttevant Reserve batt., Mauritius 86th—Bombay ; Chatham. 13th—Portsmouth. 87th—Newpcnt. S. W. 14th—Halifax, N.S; Plymouth. 88th—Malta; Ballinaslce. 15th—Ceylon; Waterford. 89th—Halifax, N.S.; Hull. 16th—Gibraltar; Birr. goth—CapeGcodHope ;Chester 17th—Bombay •' Chatham. gist—Cape ofGoodHope ; I.of o. 18th—China ;f Chatham. Reserve batt., C. G.Hope• 19th—Barbadoes ; Boyle. 92d—Enniskillen. 20th—Bermuda; Isle of Wight 93d—Canada ; Naas. Reserve batt., Bermuda 94th—Aden ; Chatham 21st—Madras ; Chatham. 95th—Ceylon ; Tralee.s 224—Bombay ; Chatham. 86th—N.S.Wales ; Chatharn• 236 —Antigua ; Isle of Wight. 97th—Corfu ; Isle of Wight. Reserve halt., Canada Reserve batt., Cephaloni a ' 24th—Bengal ; Chatham. 98th—China ; Chatham. 25th—Madras; Chatham. 99th—N. S. Wales; Chathani• 26th—Dublin. 27th—Cape t11 Boin bGaßifle B (Istb.)—Corfu ; **Sbee.r; y , Hope; ;chati G iain uer . nsey (2d batt.)—Halifax,N.S.,lsle l l: 28 Reserve batt., Halifax, K' S 29th—Bengal ; Chatham. Ist W. I. Regt.—Jamaica, B ‘°* 30 th — Newcastle-on-Tyne. 2nd—Nassau. SK 31st—Bengal ;* Chatham. 3d—Demerara, SierraLeOne , 326—Bengal ; Chatham. Ceylon Rifles—Ceylon. 334—N. Brunswick ; Mulling/1r Cape Mounted Riflemen—CAP ° 34th—Corfu; Clonmel of Good Hope. tea , 3 5 th—Mauritius; Charles Fort. R. Canada Rifle Reg.—Can 36th— We edon. - Royal Newfoundland Vete ra n 37th— Chatham 5 Corn panies—Newfoundlt. 38th—Jamaica; Londonderry. Royal Malta Fencibles, Mt n : - 39th—Bengal ; Chatham. St. Helena Regt.— St. Hel" — *Ordered home. tOrdered to India. t_ :Under orders for New South Wales. §Under orders for 80115.. I Part on passage home. ¶Ordered to Hong Kopf: ** Under orders for Cape Good Hope.