The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. deep calculating Jesuit at almost every turn of our streets —to perceive that the friends of Protestantism are not asleep at their posts, but are taking the proper steps for laying before the public the real principles of their oppo nents. Eugene Sue bas done much to unmask the sinis ter and deadly designs, the secret and diabolical plottings of some of the followers of Ignatius Loyale, and Mrs. Sherwood in the work before us exhibits, with equal power, with no less interest and effect, and with much greater regard to Protestant truth, the mysterious ma chinery, of which these devoted sons of " the Church " have everywhere the control, and which they bring to hear with never ending perseverance, not only to main tain the terrors of Rome over the minds of those of whose. fealty she is not as -ured, bat evermore to bring fresh proselytes to her fold, and to add to her wealth and secu lar power. The hero of the volume is the son of a high and noble family in this country, who after being edu cated for the established church, and having unfortunately received such instruction as would almost form the groundwork for a euperstructure of any or all of the fatal delusions of Popery, is introduced into the society of a wily Jesuit, who, by little and little, instils the poison into his mind, and the infatuated youth is led on from false doctrine to the worst of crimes—be forsakes his home—imbrues his hands in blood—becomes " The Monk of Cimies "—and when almost abandoned' to despair throngh the recollection of his baseness and' impiety, is discovered by his friends, who joyfully receive him back to the bosom of his family, and he becomes at last, when his mind is allowed fair play, a devoted preacher of the everlasting gospel, within the pale of the CHurch of England. The story is worked out with considerable ef fect, the interest never flags, atul a number of con'erover sial dialogues are carried on with great ability, and dis play the wethness of error, when confronted with the holy light of scriptural truth. The volume,. as a specimen of typography, is very Cre ditably got up by the publisher, and is sold at a peite which, we imagine, would not have sufficed a few years since to pay for the very elegant binding in which the work appears. A beautiful steel engraving adorns the pages. Guide to the Ball-room, and IllugtrAted Polka Lesson Book. London C. Mitchell, Red'Dion Court, Fleet street. A learned doctor once informed the. - world that the sight of a number of people dancing suggested to his mind the question whether or not they' were lunatics ; and there are, doubtlen; many grave people in the present day who regard it as a light and frivol ,, its amusement. People danced, however, before the Flood, and have danced ever since; ancl'as it is Rely that - we shall con tinue to dance for some generations to come; it becomes almost a necessary part of education to learn to dance well. To assist the learner to attain this accomplishment, and to place those who are already familiar with it in possession of the latest ilances and figures—tb bring up their reading, as it were, -to the present period—is the . object of this pretty and excellent little book. the slope lies the stream whereof we have spoken already, not sinuous or fringed with alders as of yore; but straight as an arrow, and fashioned into the semblance of a canal. It is spanned on the part which is directly in front of the windows, by a bridge on the skew principle, the property of a railway company ; and at the moment you are gazing on the landscape in a sort of admiring trance, an enormous train of coal and coke waggons comes rushing by, and a great blast of smoke and steam rolling past the house, ob scures for a moment the utilitarian beauty of the scene. That dissipated, you observe on the other side of the canal several staring red brick .buildings, with huge chimney stalks stinking in the fresh, frosty morning air. These are the factories of your host, the source of bis enviable wealth and yonder dirty village which you see about half a mile to the right, with its squab Unitarian lecture-room, is the abode of his honest artisans. Nevertheless, you see nobody stirring about. How should you? The whole population is comfortably housed, for the next twelve hours at least, within brick, and assisting the machinery to do its work. No idleness now in England. Had you, indeed, risen about five or six in the morning, when the clatter of a sullen bell roused you from your dreams of Jemima, you might have seen some scores of lanterns meandering like glow-worms along the miry road which leads from the village to the factories, until absorbed within their early jaws. That is the appointed time - for the daily emigration, and until the taskrrork is done, no straggling whatever is. permitted. The farthest object in view is a parallelogram Bastile on the summit of a hill, once wooded to the top,- and well known to- the rustics as the place where the fullest nuts and the - richest May ffcrwe a might be gathered, but now in turnips, and you are told that the edifice is the Union Workhouse. — Bled-wood's Magazine. _ _ . . JACEMBER retains the original name assigned to it in the /titian and first Roman Kt:lender adopted by Romulus, in both which it was the tenth or last month of the year. Its appellation is composed of Deeem, ten; and imber, a shower. It was consecrated by the ancients to Saturn, or, as some authors affirm, 'tb Vesta, the daughter of Rhea ;- and in it the Romans held their Saturnalia, The Saxons termed it winter-monal ; but after their conver sion to Christianity, they then, of devotion to the birth time of Cscrets-r," named it halig-monat, or holy month, though this title, as we have before remarked, was ori ginally bestowed by them upon September. They ale° called December midwinter-monat and giul erre i. e. the former or first giul. The Feast of Thor, which they ce lebrated at the winter solstice, was called yuil, from ioi or 0/, which signifies ale, and is now corrupted into yule. This festival appears to have continead through part of January. Brady remarks that the emblematical repre sentation of December was that of an 'old man, with a grim countenance, covered with furs or a shagged rug, with several caps upon his bead, and over them a Turkish turban, his nose red, and that and his , eard, " pendent with icicles ; • at his back he carried a bundle of holly and ivy : and in one of his hands, which were in furred gloves, he led a goat, in token of the sun entering the tropic of Ca prieorta‘ or wild goat, on this month. This was intended to mark the winter solstice, or " that period when the sun reaches its greatest decline, and is returning to its former altitude and influence," which the goat aptly ty pifies, that animal being not only much prone to climbing, which would denote the ascent of the sun, but its horns being, according to ancient hieroglyphics, emblematical of the heat naturally to be expected from each ascent. Spencer pictures December thus : "And after him came next the chill December; Yet he, through merr7 feasting which he made, And great bonefires, did not the cold remember; His '3Nvtotra's birth ec'much his mind did glad. Upon a shaggy bearded goa' he rode, The sante wherewith Dan Jove in tender years, They say, was nourished by the Idean maid ; And i his hand a broad deep bowl he bears, Of which he freely drinks a health to all his peers."' —Sharpe's London Magazine; MR. GLADSTONE'S I{ISE AS A STATF.SMAN.—Sir Robert Peel, amongst his many qualifications for the mastership of the nation, has a facui:y which will' often be found in men who are born to command—that of choosing their agents with saga - city. He had not been unobservant of Mr. Gladstone 's parliarne-.tart' talents, or of the ability he had shown in the year 1834 as Colonial Under-Secretary'. He had probably seen, with admira tion, the union of such opposite qualifications in one man. As soon as he was again in power, he seized the opportu nity to avail himself of Mr. Gladstone's services. But he did not content himself with merely making him- the offer of such an appointment as his prevous official sta tion would justify : he went much further, and constitu ted Mr. Gladstone his chief adviser and coadjutor in all the difficult debates which arose-out of his proposed mo difications of our commercial laws. He made him, in fact, his right-hand man, much to the astonishment of those who had been accustomed to regard the new vice president of the board of trade as a sort of dreamy en thusiast, and who' predicted that he would utterly fail to grapple with the laborious calculations and the multitu dinous varieties of information required in a discussion embracing so many hundreds of minute subjects, with each of which there were some one or more members-of parliament intimately acquainted. That period, however, in our modern political history was a series of surprises.• Sir Robert Peel himself furnished the greatest surprise of all. He developed powers of mind for which those who had attributed to him mediocrity were utterly unpre pared ; and it was remarkable, that, although he selected for posts in his government young, or - comparatively on' known, men, they all seemed animated by a spirit similar to that which had-inetamorphosed their patron, and each achieved, in his several sphere, some unlooked-for sue- Mr. Glatlatone's triumph was more signal than any. He astonished the House of Commons by his un wearied assidnitr , ..-the Deraevaranee with which he Dun., sued the business of his new office into its minutest de tails,- the readiness of his mind, the fertility of his re sources, the extraordinary information, so minute yet so accurate, which he had amassed in connection with that ander-current of 'commerce which flows in warehouses and counting-houses, but of which the cabinet and the-li4 brary know scarcely the existence; while in the discharge of the still more laborious duties of his office, in the re ception of deputations, the negotiation with important interests, the arbitration of conflicting claims, and the accommodation of multifarious details to a general and comprehensive plan, be sustained, with honour to him self, a competition of mind with those to whom such sub jects were their daily business, if not their only thought : a competition from which, from-the test being so much more severe and so much more readily brought home to him, success reflected still greater credit than the casual victories in the• House of Commons. Nor was it merely in the laborious handling of minute details that Mr. Gla dstone proved himself fit to hold the important post to which he had been appointed. Throughout the discus sions in question, and, also, in subsequent sessions, when he was at the head of the board of trade, he showed him self familiar, to an unexpected extent, with the great principles of commercial legislation, whether those which were about-to be abandoned, or those new ones, which, it is probable, Sir Robert Peel had even then determined to adopt : and., in his speeches on-the corn question, as well as on those connected with the tariff, he infused a high philosophic tone, which was- not to be found in the more laboured dissertations of Sir Robert Peel or Sir James Graham. In fact, whether upon these questions, or on others of more general policy, he already impressed the house and the public with that same idea of the elevation of his mind and the superiority of his intellectual-powers, which, it has already been stated, was one of the charac teristic consequences of his earlier orations on more ab stract subjects.—Fraser'a Magazine. The Bank of England meeting on Thursdtty passed over without the anticipated notice being issued, so the Bank Directors, it would seem, do not contemplate immediate action on the rate of interest. The Morning Post contradicts the statement which we gave last week respecting the failure of Captain Warner's experiments. "The writer," it says, "is inaccurate in place, person, and fact. More we are not at liberty to disclomt." EXPORTATION OF BLACK LEAD.—The Mediator, New York packet-ship, which left the London Docks on Wednesday, carried out 100 tons of this article. The exportation of black lead has been very peat by the American ships lately, and the Quebec, just sailed, took 40 tons. MESMERIC' POWER.—II has been said that this science claims tqual power with that of Satan, bat a circumstance which occurred lately at Carmarthen, shows that it is su perior to such authority : among the parties there sub mitted am', compelled to yield to mesmeric influence were two printers' devils! THE REDUCTION OY THE DUTY ON SPIRIIAW.—It ap pears from the official tables just published that a reduc tion of the duty of 7s. 100. per gallon has already led to an increased consumption of nearly 40 per cent. By a reduction of 33 per cent. of duty, there has been, in , the present year, a clear gain to the revenue of £59,730. The Gloucester Journal states, that the death of the , person Page, Wyndham, or Weflesley, took place, not on the 20th of June. as previously stated, but on the 29th of August, at an inn on the bania of the Wye, between the towns of Hay and Builtb, and he was buried on the Ist of September. The Worcester Journal adverts, with proper feeling, to an instance which occurred in that county at a meeting of a Board of Gaurdians. Toe education of pauper children being discussed, only three guardians held up their hands in favour of the measure. So much for poor-law philan thropy ! . Di!: Lyell, the geologist, has expressed himself quite dissatisfied with the story of the human bone said to have been discovered in America, among the - remains of the megatherium. Dr. Lyell is well acquainted with the lo cality of the alleged discovery, and it is his• opinion that the bone found, as described, is nothing more than a rem nant of mortality washed out of some Indianzrave._ SUDDEN DEATH . IN A RAILWAY TRAIN:--On Satur day, a widow woman, named Ellen Thompson,-was re turning to - town by the Southampton Railway, in company with her daughter, a servant living in the nelzhbourhood of Cheapside, when shortly after leaving the Wandsworth station in a second-class-carriage, she was taken suddenly ill and expired without a st►uggle. M YSTERIOUS AFFA IR.—Aithe residence of E. Wode house, Esq. M.P. for West Norfolk, the lady's maid was found on Monday in a private part of the premises, with her throat cut in a most dreadful manner, and only a few minutes after she had dressed her mistress, and bad been observed in goo 3 spirits. A coroner's jury have returned a verdict that she had cut her throat in a state of tempo rary insanity. . . . . Oise night last week, as one of the Wesleyan local preachers in the librton Circuit was returning home from a village in the neighbourhood of Hertford, he was at tacked by a stout man, who. demanded his money: - A struggle ensued for a few' minutes, and ended in the preacher being robbed of 41d., with which the robber made off, minus, however; one f his coat laps, which the preacher had torn ofFin the struggle. In the pocket were found three sovereigns and four half-crowns. Two men, named Charles Pearse and Benjamin Smith; have been committed for trial for a desperate attempt at highw,v robbery and murder on a poor pedlar, near Hert= ford. They had beard the-poor man say at a public-house that he had sold all his wares: They followed him, and on his refusing to give up his money, beat him horribly about the head, and would have completed their intention of murdering him, had not 'help reached him just as he had given himself up for lost. Two farms, of 296 acres, close to Wareham, were on Thursday week, submitted to public sale at the Auction. Mart, by Mr. Robins, and after aspirited competition, were. knocked down at 12,700 guineas the Earl of Eldon being declared the purchaser. It will be recollected these farms were possessed by the late Sir Claude Scott, Bart., who was the first to practice model farming and show what could be done by his -new system. The Drury lane renters' shares were sold , at 66 guineas each, bigher price than usual. The 31st Regiment have arrived from India, after an absence of twenty-one years. There are only two officers and about thirty men left that embarked in 1825. This distinguished corps was present at Moodkee, Ferezesbah, Buddewall, Aliwal, and Sobraon, with the division of Sir Harry Smith,—in all of which battles it was hotly en gaged, and suffered very severely. Twenty-eight officers and 530 men formed the list of casualties, the whole strength of the regiment before the battle of Moodkee having been thirty-two officers-and 733 men. INTENDED EXPORTATION OP SHAKSPEAR'S HOUSE TO AMERICA. An Englishnsan , has addressed a letter to The Times, in which he announces that Shakspear's house is about to be removed to America. He says, "It is with the greatest indignation that I have this day heard from good authority that the house in which Shakspear was born, at Stratford-on-Avon, which was advertised for sale, which implied, as everybody thought, merely a change of house-keepers, has been purchased for the purpose of its removal to America, and that its removal is about te take place. Need I add another word to excite in the, breast of every Englishman as much indignation as it does,. sir, in your correspondent!' A BOLD THIEZ.:—A clever attempt was made on Sa-. tarday evening by a thief to steal .Z4OO worth of plate,- the property of the late Lord Mayor. One of Alderman- Xotinnanns nernmErs - wilS ernpinycn In !craning n can - , nt - tnn private door of the Mansion-house, with the goods, and as soon as a chest of plate was deposited on the driver's boa a man bustled into the vehicle, and ordered the driver to set off for the Brighton railroad. The cabman began to , turia his horse round, but luckily one of the attendants at the Mansicn-hotlse caught a glimpse of the cab, and called out to the driver that there was something more for him to carry. The thief inside immediately opened the door at the far side, and disappeared in a twinkling. ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTERIDY A QUACK DOCTOR, On Friday an inquest was held at Hessle on the body: of Mrs. Frances Riplingham Cox, the wife of Mr. Ashton Cox, of that place, and of this town, tobacco manufac turer. The circumstance excited mach interest in Hassle and also in this town, on account of the alleged cause of death, it being rumoured that the same had been produced by some nostrum administered by Mr. John Cattcn, of Hutton Cranswick, farmer, who had volunteered to cure something supposed to be a cancer upon Mrs. Cox'a right arm, but her death followed - in nine days after the appli cation, which was intended to have prevented the ampu tation of the limb. The jury returned a verdict of • man slaughter against John Catton.—Hull Advertiser. A STEAMER PACKED IN Boxes.—We understand that Messrs. Miller Ravenhill, and Co., have just com pleted, in a novel manner, a beautiful little steamer for the Austrian Government intended to be employed in the canal of Venice, and occasionally, in fine weather, on the Adriatic, contiguous to that romantic city. She is of iron, 70 feet long, 12 feet beam, has a rudder at each end, and her internal arrangements were made with-an eye to the accommodation of persons of distinction. This vessel was put up in frame, in the usual way; the plates were all prepared and.adjusted ;. the cabins were completed, &c.; and then the whole was- taken to pieces, packed in boxes, and put on board a ship, bound for Venice, but now in the East India Docks. THE CFIARWIST SRECITLATION.—A. 'short time ago, two pieces of land, one of which is situated at Herring gate, Herts, consisting of 104 acres, and the other at Red marley, Worcestershire, comprising about 160 acres, were purchased by the Chartists for the purpose of the erection of cottages upon them. During the last week, up to Friday night, the sum of £13.031 4s. 9d. was raised, the whole sum collected being £lB,OOO towards the object. On the former estate thirty-six,cottages, with a school have been built at an expense of £5,000, and which will be taken possession of on the Ist of February. Early in the ensuing year several cottages will be erected on the latter estate. The Rev. Lord Wriothesicy Russell, minister , of Chenies, in the neighbourhood, has been fre quently at Herring-gate, viewing the progress of the undertaking. MK H APPY RECOVERY.—Recently a lime-burner, re siding about five miles from Carmarthen, received, as the reward of a whole season of toil and anxiety, the sum of «14., namely, two £5 Bank of England notes, and four sovereigns. The treasure was put away in a chest of drawers, and on the owner going to draw it forth some time afterwards, he was thunder-struck and amazed on finding that, although the gold was safe, not a vestige of the notes remained. Search was made everywhere, and at last the bank-paper was discovered, mumbled into small fragments, in the sleeve of his wife's best gown lying close at hand, where a mouse had made her nest. The precious pieces were carefully collected, and a repre sentation of the circumstances being made to the auth orities of the great metropolitan bank, they forthwith remitted to the fortunate lime-burner ten slaking sove reigns for his mutilated paper. The Wolverhampton Chronicle publishes a curious document connected with the chainmakers union to show how the money of the members is disposed of. The fol lowing disclosure will, we trust, open the eyes of the workmen who subscribe their hard earnings for such in famous purposes: — Cutting 120 pair of bellows, at 11. each......., Cutting two horses' throats, 51. each .... Breaking twenty windows, 10s. each Burning two ricks down, 51. each . New building cashier's house and shop, about Ditto collector's house and shop, about Total.. - • • • . £5lO We believe that the attention of the Government will be immediately called to this subject, with the view of adopt ing measures to counteract the spread of so dangerous a combination. A VESSEL DESTROYED BY SPONTANEOUS COM BUSTION.—On Sunday night, a vessel, named the James, Mr. M`Kenzie master, was destroyed by fire off Shields harbour, under remarkable circumstances. She had sailed from Shields on the previous Friday, with a cargo of coals, but owing to the boisterous state of the weather was obliged to put back, and in attempting to re-enter the harbour, struck on the bar, and afterwards drifted to the Herd Sand, the crew having fortunately been taken off. In a abort time she was discovered to be on fire, and although several pilot boats put off to render her assis tance, it was found impossible to extinguish the flames, which burnt with so much violence, that in less than an hour her hull and masts were in a body of fire, lighting up the coast and iron-bound rocks of Tynemouth Castle with singular brilliancy. The flames raged several hours, and the vessel was consumed to the water's edge. The cause of the fire, there is reason to believe, was sponta neous combustion of the coals, the vessel having been noticed to be filled with a gaseous matter a few hours prior to her destruction. There was nothing else on board that was likely to have occasioned the fire. She was a brig, and belonged to Perth. Her los§ will amount to seyeral hundred pounds. THE MAGAZINES AND SERIALS. Fraser's Magazine (London: G. W. Nickisson) con tains this month many excellent articles and °nen very remarkable one, from which .we have quoted at length elsewhere. We shall endeavour to borrow from another in our next. Blackwood's Magazine this month is rather a heavy number. It contains, however, some valuable articles, and one or two of a very racy description. Amongst the latter is one upon the subject of the Game Laws, from which we have quoted freely, and in which Friend JOhn Bright has the knout administered in Christopher's best fashion. In " Recent Royal Marriages" we have theSest sketch of the Spanish question which we have met with. Dublin University Magazine, for the present month, is full of excellent matter. The stirring " Black Prophet," by Mr. Carleton, is brought to a conclusion in the present number. 7'heJfnight of Gwynne increases in graphic excellence, and promises to be the best work which Mr. Lever has as yet presented to the public. The Fortunes of Torlogh O'Brian progresses well. Some of the scenes in the present number are strikingly pourtrayed. Almanac for the Month (Punch , office) is not so good a number as we have seen. But to be funny in November is not vet y easy. _ mother. " ' Yes, but no one could have told that it would when he was Christened. And, besides, it will be very- absurd when he is a man.' Reginald looked at his mother as he spoke, and could not imagine what he had said to make her change colour. Somehow he could not forget the ex pression of her countenance, and he could not resist an undefined feeling that there was a mystery about the child. " ' In bed and asleep in five minutes, I dare say,' said Mr. Hamilton, releasing little Denham with a kiss. The child looked grave ; it was evident he was not unwil ling to go to bed, but still that he had something to say. However he had grown very bold in making his wishes known, and he, at last, exclaimed, ' At my other at-home, my other mamma used to bear me say my prayers—may I say my prayers to you ?' And he clung to Mrs. Hamil ton's arm while he spoke. " ' Yes, Darling,' she replied, pressing him towards her ; and she added, ' lam to blame, I ought to have thought of this before.' " There is something inexpressibly touching in the ear nest prayer of childhood ; the simple words, the unques- MORAL , DETERIORATION PRODUCED BY IMPROPER tioning faith—surely they mount to Heavene , and make a DWELLINGS:—A clean, fresh, well-ordered house ex ladder by which peace descends ! Even Reginald, who ercises over its inmates a moral, no less- than a physical was neither very religious, nor very sentimental, felt this influence, and has a direct tendency to make the mem. hole influence, as little Denham knelt at Mrs. Hamilton'S bens of the family sober, peaceable, and considerate of feet, and with his tiny hands clasped together, and his the feelings and happiness of each other ;• nor is it difficult eyes cast down, he repeated the Lord's Prayer distinctly, I to trace a connexion between habitual feelings of this and then the benediction with which he had been taught sort, and . the formation of habits of respect for prOpertY, to conclude his brief devotions. for the laws in general, and even for those higher duties " ' Pray God bless mamma and papa, and brother and and obligations, the observance of which no laws can I foss sister, and grandpapa and grandmamma, and make me a enforce : whereas , a fil th y , s q ualid, unwholesome dwelling, '— good ' boy.' in which none of the decencies common-to society, even - Mrs. Hamilton ball-not- Crewmen tbatlier - allengrann. 'ln cticiciwctrt stage or eivillaaticn,-are-ov can be observed, children had been accustomed thus to pray. The thought, tends directly to make every dweller in such a hovel re that night and morning such pure orisons had been offered gardless of the feelings and happiness of each other, sel for her and her husband, awakened - a delicious tenderness fish and sensual ; and the connexion le obvious between at her heart, which well nigh broke down all semblance of the constant indulgence of appetites and passions of 'this composure. Again Reginald caught the strange ex- class, and the formation of habits of idleness, dishonesty, pression, and recognised a tremor of her frame. This debauchery, and violence ; hi a word, the training to time he read the secret through and through, and saw at a every kind and degree of brutality and ruffianism. This glance the unity of the last week's strange proceedings ! is what any man who has at all turned-his attention to the " Wonder, hope, some selfish dread, yet many more subject would expect, and a demonstration of its truth generous feelings, crowded on his mind with bewiLlering appears to me to be afforded by the fact already stated, confusion ; but the impulse of the moment led him to hide that in the worst of the districts of which we have been his mother's trepidation, and this he did successfully— speaking, and in the most wretched of the hovels of these pouring out a glass of water, as if she had asked for it, neglected districts, live, and from birth have lived, that which she was powerless to do, and taking off his father's portion of the population out of which come not only attention by alluding to an article in the Times. the pickpockets, the thieves, and those other degraded " Mrs. Hamilton knew that her son had guessed the and profligate persons who constitute the ordinary pests truth ; and when he stole another glance a minute or two of , society, but also in general our great criminals, violent afterwards, he saw that a blessing on himself beamed from and reckless men, who every now and- then perpetrate in her eyes, and floated on her lips. The next day Reginald cold blood, with a savage callousness, deeds which fill the and his mother had a long and confidential interview." whole country with disgust and horror."—The Liverpool The sudden illness of the child, and the express of a Health of Town's Advocate. wish, by Mr. Hamilton, that his parents should be sent A-young lady was told by a married lady that she had for, brings about a disclosure that he is the son of Wm. better precipitate herself off Niagara Falls into the basin Hamilton, and grievously offends the old man at the de- beneath, than marry. The young lady replied, " I would, if ception practised upon him. The child is to be sent away, I- thought I could find a husband at the bottom." and the father's forgiveness is about to be still further re- JEWISH EDUCATION.—W e will examine the state of moved from probability by the admission of the second the Jewish poor, whose only resources are the Jewish son into the firm ; and upon this being communicated to Free Schools. Are they, we will ask, in a state of The world forgetting, by the world forgot." him by his parent, the young man resolves upon consum- efficiency for mental cultivation and the improvement of the intellect, which those classes stand in need of ? .ample! the statues, so colossal, so grand; the mu- mating a sacrifice of hinaeeli, which he had meditated in Surely the staunchest patrons of the Jewish Free School so divine; the holy father, so venerable; the forty favour of his brother; and proceeds to inform Mr. Ha in Bell-lane must admit its inadequacy for the demands inals, the soldiers, the noble guard, the vast multi- milton, sen., of some youthful follies and crimes, by which , , of the Jewish population in the Metropolis, and the City, of well-dressed, clean, well-behaved, thoughtful, de- he has for some time been brought into serious embarrass iin particular. Hence the ignorance of religious matters spectators,—all united, cry aloud, Was ever scene went, and which shock grievously the old man. The re in the elementary branches of Hebrew, which is alarmingly this? The pomp, the circumstance of " glorious conciliation of all parties, however, is ultimately brought 1 increasing. Neither our middle nor poor classes have ' 1 falsely so called, sinks into insignificance compared about ; and the Christmas dinner, by which it is cele- , of late years advanced in general education, commen- this unrivalled scene. Surely, coming from the little brated, is so beautifully described that we were almost surately with the general progress of society. The eon, close to the capitol, where Sts. Paul and Peter tempted to extract it. We must, however, perforce re strongest proof of this assertion is the employment chiefly in prison, and the angel liberated them from the frain, and content ourselves with t he fol l o win g p ortion re- i of foreign teachers, because our native young men are not a to which they were bound, is a link in the chain ferring to Reginald Hamilton, the second son, of whose' capable of undertaking the task. Our Free Schools hays connects bye-gone ages with the present. The pa- sacrifice of himself for his brother we have spoken : produced no more than one or two teachers in the course Trade in Paisley is in the most horrible condition. The oman Emperors, with few exceptions, were luxu- " Soon after his partner had departed, Mr. Hamilton , grants, their spotted laurel wreaths stained with rang his bell. "fell Mr. Regina l d I wish to see him, if , of twelve years. If our readers consider the picture we operatives are applying in large bodies for parochial relief. ' eelty and blood ! Since their day, what have been the you please,' he said to the servant who resp ond e d to the have drawn too highly coloured, let them go to the anus- The men charged with the murders at Barnard Castle gogue and count how many., are able to translate their will, be tried at York to-day. rst Christian emperors—the Constantines and the Popes? summons. Prayers and their Bible ; let them listen to those who are The Middlesex magistrates are moving for an Act of - ,et history answer. '" He is not at home, sir,' the man replied. . called up to the desk and cannot pronounce the blessing Parliament to establish schools for the younger prisoners. "His floating robe around him folding. " ' Then let him know my wish as soon as he comesin. before and after the reading of the Law ; examine the Mr. Wyse has declined standing for Westminster, on Slow sweeps he through the column'd aisle ; " Two or three hours passed before Reginald returned • But when the anthem shakes the choir, and when he came at last, it was from an interview witli majority of young men, who were educated in the free- the plea of his apprehension that his religious opinions as And kneel the monks , his steps retire; Marian Wilmot I His mind was bravely strung to en- schools, and other day and boarding establishments, if a Roman Catholic would be a bar to his.success. Then will he pause till all is done, counter almost anything ; or, perhaps, he only felt, that a the y are acqua i n t e d with the religious duties of a son, a The Central Protection Society have determined upon And hear the prayers, but otter none. sc ene even as exciting as that of the day before would father, or a husband ; examine the youths on the day of calling a meeting. for the 12th of January, to consider the i Lo ! mark ye, as the harmony confirmation, if they know many other chapters. of the ' repeal of the malt-tax. I now seem tame and unimportant. Peals louder praises to the sky, Bible beyond that which they have just sung out with so Colonel Wade, the Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, " A few common-place remarks, and then Mr. Hamil much eclat ; examine the very members of the choir, who died suddenly on Thursday week, whilst inspecting the That livid cheek, that stony air Of mixed defiance and despair." ton resumed the subject of his son's offences. assist in the Divine worship, whether they are able to in- Haverfordwest 'Union Workhouse. fuse intolhe hymns the harmony of their souls with that M O r. n c U oi - g e u d h n o et , y o w f e K ek ilie o rm ne on of t, th w e as un fi d re e d r-g at tinl by ek p e o e a p e e h r e s r o s f , et have I found, at several monasteries, amiable, intelli- "' I shall pay your debts,' he said, ' and forgive the nt, hospitable monks, who spread their kindly offering to i past, on condition that you pledge your word never to of their voices. Let them examine all these, and they will, we are grieved to say it, find the religious education and so severely wounded that he died the same night. stranger, of bread, fruit, and wine, without expects- I touch card or die again ?' of our masses in a worse condition than we have de scribed Tuesday's Gazette contains a notice that a new writ is nof fee or reward. Have I not slept for four nights ' " The pledge was readily and gratefully given. . . der the sheltering roof of the monastery at Vallombrosa ; ' " And now,' added Mr. Hamilton, holding out hie it.—Jeteish Chronicle. I though the abbot appeared to be a venison-pasty, band , ' through life there must be no more deception.' about- to be issued for North Lincolnshire, arising from AN ENGLISH MANOR-ROUSE IN THE NEXT GENERA- Lord Worsley's succession to the peerage. ie loving bon vivant, yet his brethren were pale, stu- " Reginald was silent for a moment. He still grasped TION. A very nice place an English manor house us, kind, benevolent, and Christian men 1 If we can - his father's hand , while with the other be shaded his eyes . Mr. Hudson has given orders for all the persons en would be under - his (Mr. Bright's) peculiar soperinte;i- gaged on the Eastern Counties to be regaled with a good e the bachelor system Catholics exclusively require, " ' Father !' he murmured, ' I have seen Marian Wil dence, and the operation of the new regime! In the dinner, and to receive ss. duringehe Christmas holiday a. women are expelled if they enter a monastery at Rome, mot to-day.' morning we should meet, ladies and gentlemen, in the On Wednesday Col. Mule, a Conservative, was re we must allow there are many amiable individual ex- " Mr. Hamilton started; but he answered with tolera breakfast room, all devoutly intent upon the active demo- turned, for the county of Renfrew, in the place of the late ions. Did I not exchange a little present of regard, ble calmness by the interrogative monosyllable ``!'ell ?' Ii tion - mon of the muffins. Tea and coffee there are in abun- P. M. Stewart, Esq. thou brother of St. Francis! for thy simple rosary "' Do not fear,' he said, mournfully, ' that you will be -led beans so often used in prayer by thee. Did I not asked to receive a tradesman's child for your daughter. dance—but not good, for the first . has the . flavour of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Gaspard le Merchant will suc the hedges , and the second reminds us villanously of ceed the Hon. Frederick Bruce as Lieutenant-Governor books for thy little library , ob, thou dear friend and Yet, while she lives, I watch over her as a fond brother, Hunt's roasted corn. There are eggs, however, and on of Newfoundland. Sir Gaspard is at present in command at the monastery at Tallambrosa!! and if she sink before her father, I fill to him the place of the sideboard rest a large round of beef, with a thick mar- of the 85th Light Infantry at Limerick. a son. They have accepted me as such. They have been taught by my brother's sufferings to understand my gin of rancid yellow fat, and a ham which is literal hog's- A company has been started in London, entitled the temptation—l am pardoned ; and a love deeper , • purer, lard. There are no fish. The trouting-stream has been " Omnibus Publicity Company ." It proposes to cover truer than that of old is accepted.' turned from its natural co urse t o move machinery, and the interior of the roofs of omnibuses with advertisements, "' If she recover ?' asked Mr. Hamilton. . now rolls to the shrinking se a , no t i n na ti ve silver, but in in compartments of the dimensions of one foot square. alternate currents of indigo, ochre, or c ochineal, accord, John Cann, a butcher, at Bristol, killed his infant child " ` It would be a miracle—such as the world sees not , ing to the hue most in request f or th e moment at the on Monday night last, by dashing its head against the once in a century.' " ' But if ?' neighbouring dye-work. In vain you look about for stones of the street, in the presence of his wife , who was grouse-pie, cold partridge, snipe, or pheasant. You might returning with him from a friend's house. " ' Father, you would give her to me—my heart tells as well ask for a limb of the khthyosaurus as for a wing of The London Parcel Post Company is about to adopt me that you would, without my asking.' , these perished animals. Deuce a creature is there in the the penny system, and to convey to any part of London a " ' Perhaps—l do not know—speak no more about it. "' I will be silent. For the words I have heard and room except bipeds, and they are all of the manufacturing package, not exceeding eighteen ounces i n wei ght , for a , breed. You recollect the days of old, when your entry penny. have spoken to-day, are too sacred even for your ears. into the breakfast-room used to be affectionately welcomed Mr. John Laurie, late sheriff of London, and son of " Beautifully and truly is it said, that ' work is woe- by terrier, setter, and spaniel, and you wonder what has Sir Peter Laurie, has announced himself a candidate for ship !' And even, in like measure and in like manner, Enjoyment is Thanksgiving. 'Who has not felt this at become of these ancient inmates of the family. On in. the borough of Pontefract, as substitute for Lord Polling quiry you are informed, that—being non-productive ani- ton, on Conservative principles. CHRISTMAS TIME !—when the old and new years meet, mals, and mere consumers of food which ought to be re- The Liberal candidates for the representation of the and the world pauses, as it were, to breathe amid the toil, served for the use of man alone—they have one and all City of London, at the next election, are announced to and strife, and struggle of life • and the holy gratitude to of them been put to death ; and your host Points rather 'be Lord John Russell, Mr. Pattison, Sir G. Larpent , which the Sacred Season should give birth, inclines us to complacently to the effigy of old Ponto, who has been and Mr. Rothschild. Ater be at peace with all men : and none the less that we show enish by our grat i tu d e i n m i r th, an d reve l ry , an d song , and stuffed by way of a specimen of an extinct species , and who Prom an official document it appears that there are .. arm chairs now glares at you with glassy eyes from beneath the she- 202,051 licensed dealers in tobacco and snuff in the United laughter ! no fierce con- Alas! sad hearts are there, even on Christmas DaY ; ter of the mahogany sideboard. Tired of the co n verse- Kingdom; 170,048 being in England, 16,6 01 in Ireland , -•" es Toulmin rejects for the will cannot always exorcise the forms that rise at tion, which is principally directed towards the working of and 15,405 in Scotland. . the deep purpose for the new tariff, the last improvement in printed Calicoes, Lo NGE viTy.—As a proof of the longevity of the present memory's call; and the dead, or the absent, may rule the ene time she equally steers hour that seems to belong only to the mirthful present. and the prices of some kind of stock which appears to generation, the obituary of the Times, of Monday, re . 6, and sermonising. The cha-fluctuate as unaccountably as the barometer, you rise from corded the decease of no less than six persons whose There are silent cares, too , which may check gladness. .ces are human, and yet not corn- table and move towards the window in hopes of a pleasant united ages are 514 years, making an average of eighty- But for the most part, it is a happy, merry time ; and Mr. - beautiful truthfulness in their prospect. You have it. The old park, which used to five and a fraction of four. Merrythorpe was not alone in thinking there never was est poetic feeling scattered such a Christmas Day as that of which we are talking. contain some of the finest trees in Britain—oaks of the DUTCH POTATOES.—The latest returns of arrivals from ep from beneath the sur- Yet, morally speaking, it was a sort of April weather— Boscobel order, and elms that were the boast of the the Continent show the importation of nearly 300 tons continually assure ustry—is now as bare as the palm of your hand, weight of potatoes in one day. Of these, 100 tons were smiles and tears chasing each other in sapid succession." 4 of one as compe• up into potato allotments. The shubbery and flower par- from France, 112 tons from Normandy and a cargo light. To To ena- We anticipate for this little work an extensive sale, of terres, with their elegant terrace vases and light wire • • rwo of Miss which it is eminently worthy. fences, have disappeared. There is not a bush beyond a' prng 80 tons from Flushing the prodUction of Holland. The Morning Post jocosely reports a very culpable estruction few bayberries, evidently intended for detestable j am, nor practical joke. A party was given by Mrs . 8., at S. The Monk of Cimies. By Mrs. Sherwood. Man- a flower, except some chamomiles, which may be infused House' there was a country-dance ; after dancing to H. cheater : Thomas Johnson, and all booksellers. into a medicinal beverage, and a dozen great stringy " Sir Roger de Coverly," a young lady sat down, and 'At , it is very satisfactory, wben we find the efforts for the coarse-looking rhubarbs, enough to give you a dyspepsia, her dress exploded with a loud noise. A young officer of spread of popery so multiplied—when we meet with the if you merely imagine them in a tart. At the bottom of Engineers had concealed some gam-cotton in it. ad pounds to the then pope ; but this offer was declined. 3 the early Christians, with the equally barbarous Goths Vandals, destroyed such multitudes of works of art, I a convinced vast treasures now lie buried underneath e - Tiber's yellow stream ; and could it be diverted, the y would escape those dangerous inundations, so preju- Lial to health, and injurious to property and life. But aristaias-day is come! We are off to St. Peter's. The 'T is all alive ; throngs of people in strange but gay at re, from the various country districts, perambulate the reets towards the largest Christian temple in the world ; te pipers from the mountains, called Pifferari, play their lid music every night and morning before every shrine the Madonna and her Son • picturesque pilgrims, (inks, friars, priests, bishop., chamberlains,l and cardi tls, all in costume, throng to celebrate the august birth ty of the " Man of Sorrows"—of him that was " ac sainted with grief." The noble Roman guard are there their costume ; the Swiss guard in their gay, wasp-like mild hat and frilled apparel, who, with their formidable p.lberds, guard the chambers, corridors, and approaches his Holiness and the Sistine chapel ; foreign ambassa- DICS from all the states of Europe except haughty Albion re present at the august ceremony ; and soon the pom ails procession slowly winds down through the vast con yarse of people. The moment the triple-crowned Pon d! appeared, a /Arvin blast of trumpets, like so -inagel's cream, rang through the temple, seeming to come down rom beyond the roof. I found afterwards the trumpeters were concealed in no of the windows near the roof. This, like every thing Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine.—St. Giles and St. James by the editor, drags its slow length along rather too slowly. if Mr. Jerrold would give us more of it at once, the public would, we have no , doubt, be very glad, especially if it displaced some of the very reprehensible articles by which it is accompanied. It is a pity to see really clever men endeavouring to build up a reputation of superior regard for the good of the people by distorting the vices of , the great and exaggerating. the acknowledged suffering of the poor. -+- SELECTIONS. ,~is so planned by the dignitaries to create effect. All rranged, preconcerted, planned, to dazzle the mind ►trance the imagination. Behold how the diamonds, , and precious stones, glitter in that gorgeous triplt ed tiara: see the feathers waving! Each side his ss eight selected, practised men, carry on his throne, their shoulders, the crowned priest and king. All en and on their knees receiving his blessing; the ts have ceased ; the organ's solemn peal is mingling oral sounds of men and eunuchs, in wild Italian And what music is like or equal to Italian vo- Whether it be the delicious air and climate of r the finer organisation of the windpipe, throat, JW guage, and articulatory powers of the people, none can ,al, much less surpass, Italian vocalists. Go and at d vespers in St. Peter's, and in whatever part of that t cathedral, near any of those vast colossal statues, 18 t high, or beside those elegant illusive mosaic pictures, near those tombs, so gigantic, by Canova! and one too the last of the Stuart family,—the silvery tones of those idy eunuchs pervade the vast area of the temple. A soft, icious melancho'y steals over the senses ; the gorgeous ne transports you. If it be not a musical heaven ! it is ; heaven of music. You are— erntrat 11115rrilanp. NOTICES. rrfners for Life : a Christmas Story, by Camilla Foolmin. London : W. S. Orr and Co., Paternoster- • Miss Tau!ruin is deservedly a favourite with us. In that she writes—her prose sketches or her poetry— re is a freshness and_vigour of thought, combined with • graceful expression and beauty of feeling . , peculiarly at tractive. Her great merit, however, consists in the fact that her writings are throughout directed to the improve z2eat of her species ; to the removal of conventional abuses which press down the weak, and to the rebuke of tyranny practised by the stron g . In the pursuit of these objects tile is ever earnest, and most frequently happy . The " Christmas Story" before us hi as Unlike many of is class,"with which the press has teemed during the past ew winters, as it is possible to be. We have none of the melodramatic tableaux of Dickens, no striving after kzarrerie of character, no hysterical efforts to astonish by 'minute painting of improbable incident, no old arm chairs exciting themselves into galvanic liveliness, no fierce con tests between critics and kettles. Miss Toulmin rejects these affectations, as unsuited to the deep purpose for which she writes. At the same time she equally steers dear of tameness, feebleness, and sermonising. The cha =ter; which she introduces are human, and yet not com wrap/ace ; and there is a beautiful truthfulness in their delineation, and gems of almost poetic feeling scattered throughout the story—springing up from beneath the sur ace, not intruded upon you—which continually assure us Mat we are perusing the reflected mind of one as compe• tent to teach wisdom as to amuse or to delight. To ena ble us to afford the reader a specimen or two of Miss Tonlinin's style, we must briefly explain the construction zed object of the tale. in the opening chapters we are introduced to Mr. H. H. flainilton, the senior partner of an eminent commercial firsa—a haughty man, who prides himself upon his high ttteraturr. .ETCLIES OF A TRIP TO TILE CONTINENT, ITALY, AND EGYPT. BY EDWIN KEEP, /CSC'. No. IV. (Wrilt en for the Liverpool Standa r d.) persons that visit Rome are a ware t h a t t h e Coli ccupies the site of the piece of water once (alas g since) attached to the golden house of Nero ; name is taken from the colossal bronze figure of rant that stood near it, forty yards high. The masonry, overgrown with grass, upon which the figure, seen for m an y m il es di,t ant , s t oo d, i s ye t able, distinctly marked, of fitting dimensions for wonderful work of art. When the Coliseum was lerfect state, it was replete with fine statues, re tin?, the provinces of Rome. In the midst of these tr.::: of Rome itself, holding in the hand a golden But these the barbarians have all destroyed, like bat surrounded the tomb of Adrian. The huge , ple of bronze, that surmounted its dome, you may sding in the garden of the Papal Palace, and the [self now turned into a prison for criminals, and thristened the Castle of St. Angelo, and an ugly thael replaces the bronze fruit. The enormous : of many of the statues of ancient Rome may be riez accurately be the fragments of the limbs and feet, of the latter being from five to six feet in length. .perfect bionze group remaining is the eques statue, standing in the Capitol, of Marcus Aurelius nus, which once was richly gilded • and although dern Capitol gives us but a very inadequate idea of :lent one, yet there is much to delight the stranger er. Here, on this the Capitoline Hill, where gor temples once abounded, the Tarpeian Rock, the rium, built upon and obscured, but not destroyed— re the only remains of its ancient grandeur. Here is the Museum and the Palace of the Conserva 'hich, with a church and the Palace of the Senators, e degree sanctify the celebrated spot; but around gged garments were hung up to dry, and rid the Forum form a market-place for ttle, and upon the ruins of the once famous temple of anus I saw a petticoat drying in the sun! However, e approach to the modern Capitol is fine, majestic, and isle : two lionesses of basalt • brought from Egypt, a xy fine ancient Roman milestone, some statues and tro 2ies cut in marble, that spew some faint symptoms of rimer power. But the temple of the Capitoban Jove ! 'ayes, lictors, citizens, patricians, senators, gediles, tri tiles, consuls, and emperors, all alike are gone ! " Imperial Caesar dead and turned to clay, May stop a flaw to keep the wind away." One word on the bridges, and we quit the antiquities of ome. That of St, Angelo, the ancient Puns ./Elius, ected by Adrian, repaired by Clement IX., is the most tposing—the balustrade is good, the statues inelegant. e Ponte Sisto, originally erected by Antoninus Pius, re- Litt by Sixtus I V., in 1e73. The• Pons Cestius and Fab, i oat lead from the island of the Tiber. This island, with magnificent temple erected on it, was dedicated to Escu pins. The Pons Triumphalis, over which the victorious aerais passed to receive their triumph ; the Pons Sena ins, over which the senators passed to consult the bane Oracles, and the Pons Publicus, are in ruins. test was the only bridge in Rome when Codes de tded it so bravely against the army of Porsenna, re- It by Lepidns, repaired afterwards by Antoninus Pius. )m this bridge, the bodies of Commodus and Helioga us were thrown into the Tiber; and on what treasures .t yellow stream rolls over I If in our provincial awes, so many bronze relics, statuettes, coins of gold, rer, and brass; fine medals, busts with silver eyes, scents, lips and nipples, a master-piece of art in the (rize figure of an archer, swords, spears, instruments of ions kinds, a colossal bronze head and hand of Adrian, ea, and a vast variety of other instruments, and one trument of bronze, with twelve bronze heads of deities, m the use of which instrument there are seven diffe it opinions held by the learned ;—if all these relics re been accidentally found in the Thames and its vici y, what might not be discovered by diverting the arse and laying bare the bed of the Tiber, where it sea through the imperial city. Towards the interest search, which would amply repay the labour and ex ist, the late Duchess of Devonshire offered ten thou- hint ; and to his partner, Mr. Merrythorpe, a good tempered, happy little personage, who represents the Co. Tea years previously the eldest son of the former had se riously offended his parent by forming an alliance with a young orphan girl, engaged in his father's house to super intend the education of a younger brother, and, for this offence, he had been driven from his home and his name forbidden to be mentioned within its walls. Good Mr. Merrythorpe, however, and his wife, had kept their eyes upon the outcast ; and by their influence he had succeeded iu getting a highly responsible employment in a merchant's counting-house, from which he derived a moderate coin petence. The interest of the tale hinges upon the success of certain efforts made by Mr. Merrythorpe, his wife, and the mother and brother of the offending young man, to procure for him and his innocent wife and children, from the unbending and stern father, forgiveness of his early fault. The history of the second brother affords alto a touching and instructive episode. The plan adopted to soften the haughty father is the introduction into his house of one of the children of his discarded son, in the hope of first winning his affections, and ultimately bring ing about the forgiveness of all, The effort to introduce the child—" Darling Denham"—has been successful, and the following beautiful little incident occurs:— " A week had passed ; but the scene is again that din ing parlour. Just the same it looks, and yet what a dif ference may be traced! You could have dreamed the rich damask window-curtains had never been undrawn, for they have fallen. in just the same massive folds as be fore; and the suspended lamps are casting the same light upon a choice dessert, and gleaming on fine glass, through which the wine sparkles like melted rubies and liquid am ber. But chairs are not drawn upon the hearth-rug now, the proprieties are rigidly considered, and Reginald occu pies one side of the table. " The ' angel in blue' is there ! Not seated on a stiff, uncomfortable nursery chair, and frightened into silence by grave looks ; or shyly crouching near his first friend for protection. Not at all,-but perched upon the knee of Mr. Hamilton Howard Hamilton with one arm thrown round his neck, and all the confidence arising -from six days' intimate acquaintance ; and just at that moment watching with childish glee the manufacture of an orange peel basket, —to be filled with a particle of every delicacy on the table—on which Mr..Ef. H. Hamilton was busily engaged, lamenting now and then his own awkwardness at an art in which, twenty years before, he had been a-pro ficient. It put him in mind of the time when-Reginald was just such a child, and made him think of poor Ed ward ! This he said. But surely there was an unspoken memory of the absent which mingled with the sigh heard at the mention of the dead ! " Darling Denham was unquestionably the chief object of attention at the table ; he had been prattling away about his mamma and papa, and brother and sister, the kitten, and a certain toy horse and cart belonging to Edward, which seemed, by his account, to merit unbounded admi ration. Meanwhile the basket had been completed, quickly filled, quickly emptied. and—broken. " ` But I would not have a cart with only one horse-,' said Mr. Hamilton, forgetting all dignity in the delight he had in drawing on the child to prattle. ` I would have a cart with four horses, would not you ?' " This was evidently a new idea ; and little Denham had not yet made room for it in his mind. He looked up astonished, and his cherry lips just parted, but he did not speak. " ` I saw a cart so large,' continued Mr. Hamilton, measuring about a foot on the dining table, ` laden with barrels, and drawn by four horses; shall I bring it home for Darling to-morrow ?' " The child's mind had cleared with this description, and now the idea was taken in distinctly. But t( o bash ful at the magnificence of the promised gift to speak, he threw both arms now round Mr. Hamilton's• neck, and hugged himself against his breast. The hug was—returned. " ' I think Darling you must be sleepy,' said Mrs. Hamilton a few minutes afterwards, `it is past bed time.' " What an odd name to give a child,' interrupted Reginald. " But it suits him exactly, does it not ?' returned his Dee. 14, is 46. JUPITER AND HIS MOONS.-11ECE will be a beautifat and interesting grouping of the moons of Jupiter on the evening of the 30th of December, at 16m. after 7, mean time, when all will appear to the westward of their pri mary, in rare and close companionship ; the second and fourth moon occupying a position nearly parallel with the belts, and once his diameter from his limb ; the first and third parrallel with his equator, and distant two and three diameters. Owing to the rapid and now opposite motioa of the first and second satellites, this convocation of worlds will be of short duration, and the beautiful group will separate. The belts of Jupiter, which fur a series of years have exhibited marked inequalities of distinctness, this year are strong and well defined. HONOURABLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF AN Elision. —The Rev. Hobart Seymour, of Bath, has addressed a letter to the London Guardian, acknowledging that the statement which be made at a public meeting against Mr. Phillips, (as to the proceedings of the Church of Rome,) grounded on a letter from Mr. P. to Mr. Merewether. shown to him by the latter in 1837, and the production of which, he (Mr. S.) called for through that journal, was, not justified by the letter produced, which was dated ira 1830. Mr. Seymour says he believed the letter shows was written in 1837, and accepting the letter of 1830,a3i now publishes!, as the only one written by Mr. Phillips to , Mr. Merewether, (who was a stranger to him, Mr. Sep., mour,) it did not present the faintest resemblance to his recollections of the other, upon• which he had made the statement. Thus much, he adds, is due to Mr. Phillips, and also to himself, as showing that he spoke at the time in the integrity of his heart, and the then deep convictions of his mind. CROWDING OF BURIAL GROUNDS-.—ln the year 1525, the parish of" St. Martin" was, as its name implies, "in the Fields." In the above year, litirteen bodies were buried in the parish. In 1526, fourteen were buried. In 1527,• iwenty-tteo were buried. In 1528, thirteen were buried. The examination of the sextons' books, com menced in the year 1691, would, as tending to elncidate my ralbject, be both interesting and ivaportant. The burial-ground of this parish, situate on the western- side of Drury-lane, contains 10,080 superficial feet. period of ten years, 315 adult bodies, and no more, might have been buried there, or at the rate of 32 perannum r By an official return, it appears that in one year, 565 bodies were disposed of between the above-named `burial.. ground (?), the one at Camden Town, and' the vaulty' under St. Martin's Church. There is little - room tier doubt, that on an average three hundred and fifteen bow dies, instead of thirty-two, have been interred yearly in the burial-ground in Drury-lane.—Mr. Walker's-Lecture. THE FOOTPAD IN PETTICOATS.—We have received reports, from various quarters, of a " Madge Wildfire,' who had been seen on the outskirts of Gateshecd, south and west, and has attacked various individuals w;th felo nious intent. A. young man named Cout, who lives - at the Low Fell, relates, that he was returning home after dusk, and got to that part of the road which lies oTrposite , to the residence of Wm. Wylam, Esq. of Cramer a_lykes when the woman came up to him, and presented a pistol at his head, at the same time demanding his bundle. He. hesitated to comply, and received a blow on the face with the butt end, to quicken his deliberations. He then held out the bundle; but when she was about to take it, ycartg Cout, being a strappinglad, struck ber on the side of the' head and knocked her down. Clapping a whistle to her mouth she sounded an alarm, and four fillows came to. her assistance. Cout, however, who retained his bundler+ got clear off, and never ran faster home in his life than on this occasion. The suspicion is that ' the woman' is a= man in masquerade :7 octeshead •Observer. One of tile Model Lodging-houses in Newton-street, Holborn, his been open for the reception of women. The inmates are principally servants out of place, persons who obtain a livelihood by needlework and artificial flower-making, clear-starchers, and workers in fancy' paper, &c. The accommodation is far superior to what might be expected, and the greatest order prevails throughout the establishment. Each lodge is provided with a separate bed. On the basement there is a kitchen, with every requisite for cooking, a good fire, and two boilers, with water boiling every morning by seven o'clock. Round the kitchen are small cupboards, with different locks; one of these is appropriated to the use of each lodger. On the ground floor is a work room for persons at needle-work ; there is also a washing-room, with every convenience. The charge is ls. Gd. a week. As this system has been found to•work well, the pro moters intend to construct similar establishments in all neighbourhoods where the industrious portion of the poor reside.— Globe. THE CATTLE FATTERS V. THE FEEDERS OF THE POOR.—Already glimpses are caught of that returning self conviction which precedes the abandonment of a favo rite folly. Already landlords are found asking one another whether they have been pursuing a wise policy in giving great rewards for fat beasts, and small ones for hungry workmen ; and whether they should not at least reverse the conditions of their bounty, even if they do not abolish its pure obnoxious form. At the Taunton agricultural meeting Sir T. Lethbridge, not having the fear of his bro ther squires before his eyes, boldly told them they were going too far, " in putting useless fat on lean bones." " It did no good to any body ; it was indulging a fancy. A friend of mine who had two oxen here last year was told to take them home and fatten them ; and he could have kept ten men for what those two oxen had cost him. And where was the money ? On the animals' backs ; and it must be all pulled off again before people could eat the meat. It must go into the fryingpan or the soap-maker's boiler; and what better are they for that? See if , you can't do something better for the peer man than this. THE METROPOLIWAN GRAVE YARDS.—Burial places, long over-charged with dead, are yet in full operation. lutlivlOttals, totally Olbrtgaidlug tne :reams of the public, bury, or pretend to bury, the dead in places utterly in capable of containing the numbers entrusted to their charge, amounting, in some burying-grounds, to thirty on a Sunday alone. The mortality of the metropolis, at the present computation of 52,000 annually, will in five years be 269,000. The lowest possible period that should be allowed for the destruction of the human body in graves, would be five years. An acre of ground contains 43,560 square feet. If we divide this by '62, the number of square feet required for a single adult interment, we shall have 1,361 as the number of spaces left for graves in an acre of ground. If the burying-grounds in London, some of which have been in use for centuries, contain only 80 acres, portions of which have been pre-occupied by monu ments, tombs, headstones, and otherwise, this space would receive and givaburial to nearly 109,000 bodies,—a calcu lation which would leave, during any given five years, the mortality, as above stated, being 52,000 per annum, 151,000 bodies to be disposed of or, in other words, unin terred I—Mr. Walker's Leclum.. The private accounts received within the last few days from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland give a much more gloomy picture of the state of the population, arising from want, than anything which has yet appeared in the publ:o journals. The Highlanders and Islanders of Scotland have always been as dependant on their po. tato crops for subsistence as the Irish peasantry, end, in many districts the failure cf.-that crop has, this rissan, been greater than even in Ireland. In Long Island, one of the largest islands in the Highlands, where the average crop of potatoes is supposed to be about 140,000 bushels, not 2,000 bushels could be found at this moment. The population are consequently plunged into a state of the deepertdestitution. It is a fact which has been ascer tained by a commission sent northwards by the. Free Church, that whole families remain entire days without tasting a morsel of food of any kind. One of the Free Church ministers having recently been called toloaptizen child, found that not one or the family, consisting of eight persons, bad tasted food of any kind for twenty four hours ; and yet, amidst all their extreme privations, the Highland peasantry never suffer a murmur of com plaint to escape their lips; nor is crime of any. kind known amongst them. ' WHOLESALE WINDOW SMASHING.-021, Saturday week three young_ fellows, the eldest of whom was not more than 21 years of age, named John and Henry Goulden, brothers, and Charles Todd, the two former of whom have passed the last five years either in the work house or the county pison, were convicted at Eton of having demolished 323 squares of glass in the day-room of the workhouse. The two Gooldens admitted they had broken the windows with broom-handles, because the things their food was served out in were in a filthy state. The offeders, not being able to pay the amount of da mage and costs, were each sentenced to two months' im prisonment and hard labour. Henry. Goulden ba4 been previously convicted seven times, and Todd six times, before the Eton bench of magistrates, far similar offences committed in the union workhouse.- Two other inmates of the union-house, Laura Beasley and Barbara Fountain, were charged with having broken ns squares of glass, in a similar manner, in another part of the building. It appeared that the girls had been set to scour the floor, and that, by way of _variety, they set-to and broke the windows with their mops and scrubbing-brushes. They veers both ordered to pay the amount of damages and costs. In default, they were sentenced to six weeks' hard labour in the House of Correction at Aylesbury. • YORKSHIRE WINTER ASSIZES.—The trials at these Assizes commenced, at York, yesterday week, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, and Mr. Justice V. Williams. The former, in charging the Grand Jury, remarked that the calendar was heavy, there being nearly 140 prisoners, many of them charged with weighty offences. He found by the calendar, that many of the prisoners were wholly uneducated, and many were but slightly educated ; and hoped that by increased exertions, in educating the rising generation, an amendment in the moral habits would take place. The following were some of the cases tried.— James Cauley was found guilty of having, along with others, violently assaulted Richard Haigh, at Sandal Magna, and robbed him of money,—death was recorded against him. David Todd, a man who had been sen tenced to transportation for life, and who was found at large in this country, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to the same punishments. His lordship ordered £2O to be awarded to the person who discovered and caused the prosecution of the prisoner. George Adamson, aged only 16, was charged with having administered poison to Ann Bramah, Lydia Bramab, Thomas Bramab, and Al fred Bramab, with intent to kill them, the wife and chil dren of a tailor and draper, in Wood-street, Wakefield. The prisoner was an apprentice to Mr. Bramah, who on the 12th of October went out to hear a lecture, leaving the family and the prisoner in the house. The latter was employed cleaning out the grate. One of the girls made some porridge for supper, and poured it out on plates. Prisoner said he had eaten an apple and would want bat little. Mrs. Bramab, therefore, gave him the smallest plate, of which be took but a small :portion and went to bed. Soon after all the others were taken ill, the symp toms being violent reaching, and vomiting, &c. A. surgeon was called in, and his efforts were happily suc cessful. The boy was also very ill. Upon an analysis, arsenic was detected. The prisoner made several ad missions, stating that he had - put about a tobacco pipe full into the porridge. The prisoner, who said the ad missions were falsely made, on the suggestion of a Mr. Foster, a friend of the Bramah family, was found guilty, but recommended to mercy on account of his Totttk.-- Sentence deferred, env Jen Tull ope, bett Cob Lie the doe wei No,