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SHOCKING CO'A.L PIT ACCIDENT. —An inquest was
held yesterday, at Pendlebury, near Manchester, by
W. S. Rutter, Esq., county coroner, on the bodies of
two colliers killed at the Agecroft Colliery of Messrs.
Knowles, on the previous Thursday. The deceased,
Robert Beckett ar.d Robert Hilton, had gone to work
by themselves in the pit on Thursday' morning, and it is
supposed that early in the morning they had been buried
by a fall of earth from the roof of one of the workings.
Their wives went in search of them at some public
houses on Thursday evening, supposing that they had
left the pit as usual, and were stopping on the way to
drink instead of returning home. Next morning they
inquired at the colliery, and then it was recollected that
they had sent no coal out of the pit after about nine
o'clock on Thursday morning. A search was made in
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Saville House. By Addlestone Hill. 2 vols.
Routledge.
This is an historical romance of the time of
George the First. Many of the celebrities of that
day appear in its pages. Conspicuous among them
are the very opposite characters of Alexander Pope
and the Duke of Wharton. To the plot itself lit-
tle praise can be awarded. It is as complicated, con-
fused, and improbable as any of the old romantic
histories of lost children, and mysterious indi-
viduals planning secrect crimes. The two heroines
are of very different dispositions. Both, however,
die at the conclusion of the tale. It may therefore
be inferred that the story is not a very lively one,
nor are the incidents of a pleasing character ; but
the admirers of wild and tragical narratives may
find pleasure in unravelling the intricate threads
of the plot, and more critical readers may discover
amusement in the liveliness of the dialogue and the
delineation of society and manners a hundred years
ago.

The Hero's Child, and other Poems. By Anna M.
Debenham. Hughes.
This is a pleasing and unpretending volume of
poems, which interest from their simplicity, and
the absence of all endeavours after effect. The
authoress admits it to be her first work, and says
it merely aspires to be " the poetry of home, its
affections, and associations." We should recom-
mend the writer to turn her attention to subjects
of general interest ; and, if her productions cannot
claim to be possessed of great originality, or high
poetic talent, they will, at least, insure a welcome
as graceful and pleasing fireside companions. The
followitig is ono of the best of the short poems :
THE LIFE OF POESY.
" Dreams are the poet's birthright—
Dreams are the poet's hope
Dreams are the poet's spirit light,
By which he steers life's boat.
" Dreams are his fount of knowledge__
Dreams aro his guide to truth—
Dreams are the learned college
In which he passed his youth.
" Dreams were his childhood's dwelling—
Dream land his dearest home ;
In dreams his heart is swelling
With joys that never come.
" All dreamy is his spirit bride—
Bright dreams his children are
Entranced, he's wafted o'er life's tide,
To rise in worlds more fair,
" And find the glory of his dreams
Surpassed on those blest shores,
Where radiance from the Godhead streams,
And, waking, he adores !"

Victoria, late Australia,
cal and Descri
Member
semGboeldr
ofil /
theit ei s .
District of New . ielix or Port Philip,
itiZth Account of the Colony and
Wales; being an Histori-
cal
William INrestiminc9t late
Oliver and
Boyd, Edinburgh ; Simpkm and
Marshall, London.
Legislative Council of . ori
World
A vast amount of information may be gathered
from this work on the subject of Australia gene-
rally, Victoria particularly. Among the accounts
we meet with a generalvrigin and early history,
climate, scenery, g progress, &c. Several
chapters are given to the gol4i discoveries and their
general effects. The squatting system is also
tot inuswlealtlheitssocaiteratyngoef
apparentlytahnedNew
treated of at some length. A most interesting por-
unnatural features. Those who have •
istirenliastedtha
considered
themselves the grandest here are obliged to descend
several steps in the social scale , while
have been looked down on her.e fi d those who
suddenly possessed of wealth the n themselves
of at home, and, endued with ey never dreamed
power and influence

they are very often not qualified to wield with dis-
cretion, and totally unable to make a right use of.
The author remarks that it is a mistaken notion
that is prevalent here, to the effect that all of the
society in the colonies is comprised of the humbler
classes who have left the mother country. Of late
years the educated as well as the unlettered have
found sufficient attractions offered to them to hurry
there ; and those distinguished for brains and men-
tal cultivation are required as well as the workmen
in departments of bone and muscle. On the whole,
a favourable impression is derived from the details
here given, and the author expresses his conviction
that he has recorded " the progress and proceed-
ings of a people not unworthy, under all the cir-
cumstances of their position, to bear the honour of
the British name and to continue a portion of the
British empire."
An appendix is affixed to the book, which gives
the reports of the Melbourne Chamber of Com-
merce, for the last two years, upon the condition
of the colony.
A map is given of the colony of Victoria, with
divisions according to orders in Council. It is
coloured differently for the settled districts, the
unsettled ditto, the intermediate ones, and the
gold-fields.

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. Collected
by himself. Vol. I. Longman. _ _

This new and complete edition of
• • the works of
the late poet Laureate, is to be completed in ten
volumes. The first contains Joan of Arc complete.
The second and third, his juvenile and minor
poems. Thalaba will occupy the fourth, and
Madoc the fifth ; and the ballads and metrical
tales the two following, and the remaining three
will comprise The Curse of Kehama, Roderick, the
Poet's Pilgrimage, and the Vision of Judgment.
Each volume is ornamented by ten engravings.
The chief feature in this series is, however, the
numerous emendations which have been made by
the author. Out of 543 lines of the fit book, in
the edition of 1837, 186 stand differently,rs and there
are also, in the same book, eleven passages of greater
length, which have been altered. The type and
binding are excellent, and the edition offers the
additional attraction of being the only one from
which any benefit accrues to the author's represen-
tatives, as Messrs. Longman are the only persons
who have the right to publish Mr. Southey's poems
with the prefaces and corrections according to the
author's latest revision.

Forest Life in Ceylon. By W. Knighton, M.A.
formerly Secretary to the Ceylon Branch Royal
Asiatic Society. Two vols. Hurst and Blackett.
In the preface the author informs his readers
that he looks back with peculiar pleasure to the
time he spent in Ceylon, and that if those who
peruse his work feel a tithe of the satisfaction he
felt in the compilation of it they will have been
amply remunerated. It is satisfactory to meet
with such feelings as these ; for a book is always
more pleasant and interesting when it is written in
an energetic and enthusiastic style. In the ptesent
case it is undeniably so ; for the author evidently
enters into the details and descriptions of place and
people with the manner of one who is performing a
pleasurable occupation, not executing an irksome
task. The reader will be doubtless struck with
the variety and remarkable peculiarities of the races
met with in the island. There are two histories
given here which are very interesting, and
appear at the first sight improbable ; but, as
the narrator remarks, the circumstances are
such as are continually occurring " wherever
Eastern and Western races have been brought into
collision—a collision as much of souls as of bodies."
The career of the second is the most worthy of atten-
tion. Although both the youths committed acts of
duplicity, none can help sympathising with them,
on account of the exceedingly trying positions in
which they were placed. There are several short
anecdotes, besides the more lengthened sketches.
One which is particularly ludicrous is that referring
to an accident met with by an unfortunate gentle-
man, in consequence of the attacks of monkeys. The
cinnamon groves of Ceylon have long, been cele-
brated. A long account is given 9f them in this
work. The Cave Temples of Dambool, and the
buried city of Anmadhapoora, are likewise very
attractive points of interest. For variety in sub-
ject, and for ability in description, there is much
to raise this retrospect of Ceylon to a higher place
than that occupied by many works of travels. It
will very likely obtain a great success.

Old England and New England, in a Scrim of
Views taken on the Spot. By Alfred Bunn.
2 vols. Bentley.
It has become the fashion when au individual
whose name is well known to the public visits
another country, on his return to publish the re-
sult of his travelling experience. The author of
the present work asserts his intentions to be " not
to write a history or geography, topography, or
any other 'ography ; nor an psychology, biology,
or any other 'ology ; nor on the stratum or substra-
tum of an empire, and their component qualities.
Our purpose is to hook you by the buttonhole, and
have a cozy chat with you over many things you
have seen, and many more you ought to see—to
take a drink, stranger,' with you, and over it
make you laugh at matters that made us laugh—
in short, to have neither more nor less than a col-
loquy about the sayings and doings of a great land,
in which none can take a more absorbing interest
than the people of the great land from which we
write." Such being his intentions, he has done his
best to fulfil them. The work is of a lively and
conversational description, not divinr, deep into
political economy or subjects of historical interest,
but taking the surface of social life and manners,
mentioning various transatlantic celebrities, and
replete with amusing notes and ludicrous anecdotes.
Spirit rappings, of course, occupy a prominent
place. The writer confessed himself to have been
puzzled for a moment by the accuracy of their
statements, but firmly asserts his entire disbelief in
them, and his conviction of the pernicious effects
resulting from them. Indeed, the list of those who
have either ended their days by suicide, or have
been driven to the lunatic asylum, in consequence
of the delusions occasioned by the " rappers" and
" mediums" is quite sufficient to deter any who
have any respect for their life and reason from turn-
ing their attention to the subject. It is to be hoped
that this mania, like many others, will soon pass
away, but certainly few will have left behind them
so sad a record of victims. The accidents, accord-
ing to Mr. Bunn, are frightfully frequent and fatal.
Many will remember the terrible catastrophe which
took place last April, when, owing to the bridge
being open to allow a steam-boat to pass, the rail-
way carriages were precipitated into Raneocus
Creek. This accident was, however, only of
w
three within a month, being preceded and foll
by two almost more appalling. The picture given
of the doomed train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railway gives a vivid idea of the dreadful position
of the passengers when the "
making
were thrown
down a height of 100 feet,, mg four somer-
saults in the descent.
, Duringm a space of four
months, forty accidents have
occurred, whereby
more than a hundred and twenty individuals have
been almost suddenly sent to their account, and
more than two hundred mutilated and maimed for
life." Most of them arise from a want of proper
caution. For instance, the man whose work it Was
to move and remove the " draw" at the Rancocus,
said, that " his orders were to open the draw
whenever a steamboat came along, and that he had
never tipped a train into the water before.: hopOnEle
is enough, one would think. It is to /3
that American ingenuity and enterprise will
turned in this direction, for some improvement is
greatly needed.
Mr. Bunntakes a very favourable view of the
circum
country and its inhabitants. Haet Siv,est a
auras" wh -
o
stantial account of all t
have visited it, and thei:e ari'dramous degrees es of success
that attended them.
This
ls part a the work will
readers. Among
re be very interesting life, the boarding-
the curiosities of eked. 'An hotel, whose
houses must aertainjul
y.
00'
on, mption is 2,0001b5. of beef,
average weekl
65,000 gallons of water, and
1,5001b5. of mut./
8001bs. of soap,
rLes certainly a remarkable establish-
h d d and thirty-nine clerks, waiters,
merit.
&AG.; is in keeping with an establishment
cooks, er reckons 450 daily boarders, and
1 in aumm
21115 it the winter months.
d
Readers who esire a lively picture of American
manners, who are desirous rather of entertainment
• h 'h to lauffh rather than to
than instruction, w o wis
learn,
will find in Mr. Bunn's volumes complete
satisfaction.

Cautions for the Times. Edited by the Archbishop
of Dublin. John Parker.

This is one of those works which are interesting I
only to a limited class of readers. There are, how-
ever, some of a speculative disposition who are
always attracted by arguments and disquisitions.
To such a series of papers on "Papal Aggressions,"
“ Class Religion," " Apostolical Succession," &c ,
will, always be welcome---i-though it is to be que.s-
tioned if such subjects and sermons prod
beneficial effect on the' readers, and uce my
whether they
do not increase the intolerance that subsists be-
tween the different sects. It will, no doubt, be
gladly received by theologi
cal disputants, and it
appears to be written in a calm and unbiassed
style, free from virulence and prejudice.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—The Coi-
missioners propose to construct a large pumping station
at Deptford, and to facilitate the drainage of the Lond.9:
area within their jurisdiction on the
south side 9f ta
'diver by paeans of an intercepting wain sewer.