The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-27 00:00:00

THE FOREST OF PEACOCKS.

An officer of the 30th Bengal Native Infantry writes
thus---'on the 6th of April we arrived at Chatteer, and
entered upon the skirts of the great Moburbunge, better
known as the Forest of Peacocks. The jungle hereabout
runs excessively heavy, and the hills, which are chiefly
composed of laterite, a species of compact iron: sand stone,
are rugged in the extreme, and are studded up to their
very summits with teak and saul trees. We encamped at
about seven o'clock, A.M., upon a small grass plain, situated
between two lofty heights, embedded in forest, having
pitched ourtents contiguous to an old disused water tank,
which was completely choked with the lotus (Indian water
lily). Here I had the misfortune to lose my favourite
pointer, Dash, whom I had brought out with me from Wark-
worth, who, in the act of slaking his thirst after a long
and hot morning's march, was carried off by an alliga-
tor. Although the heat of the sun was excessive, never-
theless myself and two brother officers ventured, after a,
slender breakfast, to take the field, and equipped with three,
double-barrelled guns, suitable ammunition. and a few
village coolies as our guides, entered the Forest of Pea-
cocks at the foot of the nearest hill. A death-like silence
seemed to pervade these deep rocky and solitary glens.
Not a leaf. was seen to move, nor a sound uttered to
awaken the ear, save, ever and anon, the harsh scream a
the peacock, or the sonorous grunt of some half frantic
elk, as the latter lay encouched in his lair, impatient of
the annoyance of the myriads of musquitoes which worry
these animals during the day almost to madness. In
descending a defile we perceived, on a small green patch,
about eighty yards from us, four wolves greedily picking
the skeleton carcase of a deer, or other animal, which had,
no doubt, fallen a victim to the predatory appetite of
some marauding leopard or tiger. On reaching the
terminus of a slope we came upon a spacious valley, in
which were feeding some hundreds of peafowl. We
contrived to get within sixty yards of them before they
attempted to retire into the bamboo thickets, which
were profusely distributed throughout this retired
spot ; and as they gracefully paraded, in the act of with-
drawing themselves from view into the jungle, their rich
luxuriant plumage, played upon by the sun's beams, ap-
peared like so many moving bodies profusely studded
with precious gems of the most surpassing brilliancy.
The work of slaughter now began. Every thicket fur.-
nished six or more birds for our marks, and, with three
.double-barrel guns, charged with No. 2 shot; you may
imagine that the havoc among them which followed was
terrible. We succeeded in bringing down twenty-
seven of these noble birds, and might have considerably
exceeded that number had it not been that the subduing
influence of the sun prompted us, aeainst our will, to
seek the shad' el overt of the forest, and to make . u • best
way back to the encamping ground. We crossed ev.:ral
mullahs, on the muddy banks of which were visibly im-
pressed the telltale footsteps of various tigers, leopards,and other like wild and ferocious animals, which, during
which s
is a
some
t e unexplored xt ph leo r
largestd wilderness
the still hours of night, were in the habit of repairingr
to these haunts to quench their burning thirst. This
forest
parts of India take their rise, and inhabited only b e
most ferocious beasts that are indigenous to that ei
riversern ess
i asn t
theo
the interior,,south-western it
the
exten-
sive tract of country.

RESEMBLANCE OF LORDS AND SAVAGES.
—There is often, in fact, no material difference between
• the enjoyments of the highest ranks and those of the
rudest stages of society. If the life of many young Eng-
lish noblemen and an Iroquois in the forest, r an Arab
in the desert are compared, it will be found that their real
sources of happiness are nearly the same. The treasures
of science, the refinements of taste, the luxuries of wealth,
are in many cases disregarded or forgotten, and the exci-
tation of life depends on the destruction of wild animals
or the management of impetuous steeds. This is a fact
which is a matter of daily observation ; and it furnishes
a most instructive lesson as to the proportion established
by nature between the active and speculative part of
mankind. The great majority in every class of
society
are incapable of receiving happiness from any
rifoigi ---‘be-
but from physical excitation ; and every other iscrarce
species. The
totheeexistence and
human improvement which is founded on and .1-
an for
position will necessarily fail. Nor is it Nch'4t,nletr sup
~,,,,
reason that nature has established this disproportion
exertion
w were
e;
tween the studious and active part of th
great mass of undertakings essential
tahhed,wueulflaerses
theof greateriikin
pd,artdeepef depend on
and
d physicalfellow-creatures
disposedoyme
nttso tthhaattspleacteieusdofilt,abothuer,
race would speedily
enj gratified with the
perish, and the speculations of science
Population. disappear wit
the individuals who formedh
of them.—Allison's Principles
Peel will take office to uphold mischief—to
prop
up monopoly—to perpetuate sta • rvation. The people have
become discontented , they have become wild for social
changes ; they want freedom—freedom for
their industry and for • their religion—freedom 'in the
exercise of the electoral franchise. Peel
office to put a stop ton all this. He is to try and dam
the current of national But . breakup
progress. may it not
down all his feeble b • .
barriers, and overwhelm him among
safety-valve -
the ruins ? He may sit down upon the of
the social engi •
ne, and whistle to the boiling cauldron
beneath him ; but the boiler may burst and blo hint
and hia
and his party to pieces. Peel knows all this, and he
Tories
trembles. But the stake played for by the To • is a
desperate one ; and he must onwards. " Needs must
when Devils drii-e."—Leeds Times.

ALMOST A SHOWER OF EGGS.—It is stated
in a Baltimore paper that a citizen recently caught in
his hat, without breaking, a large egg which had de-
scended from a flock of wild geese, which were passing
over at the time. This was probably the same flock
which was seen some time since, and flew so low that as
man might shake a stick at them.-11fechanic.
According to the book of Japhet, recently,
published, Naomah, the daughter of Enoch, was SSO
years old when she was married to Noah. This is an
example that should give courage to the old maids of the
present day.

EVENING SUN

CONDITION OF AGRICULTURAL

LABOURERS.

I visited their cottages, and obtained specific accounts
their furniture, dietaries, wages, and other circum-
tances that affect their comfort. I will first describe
the cottage and mode of living of a Sussex labourer,
whose family is such as to make him one of the most
distressed of his clans. He ha; a wife and s.ven chil-
dren, the eldest of whom is a girl aged twelve, and all
the rest happen to be girls, except one boy five
-years old.
On entering, the cottage displays a room about 20
feet long by 15, paved with brick, and nearly divided
into two by a partition ; the fire-place is here, and it
fOrms the sitting-room of the family. The furniture
consists .of one common-looking deal table, a rather
elegant round oak one, with moveable flaps, a maho-
gany cupboard, and six chairs ; there are curtains to
the windows. Adjoining is a pantry, which seems
.111 ed with all sorts of cooking utensils, and a bake-
house, where the family bake once a week, as it is the
ecitom in these parts, bakers bein; rarely employed.
1:p stairs there are two bed-rooms, in one of .which the
:1: n, his wife, 'and the baby sleep, and in the other, which
er.litains three beds, the rest of the children. They pur-
,..l-..ase six gallons of flour weekly, which is made into
-read or cakes with potatoes. They drink tea made
,vith burnt crusts, China tea being too expensive now.
Since the price of sugar has risen, they have been obliged to
~.:re up its use ; but a quarter of a pound is bought weekly
sweeten the pap for the baby. They have no meat ex-
-I.Ppt on a Sunday, when a meat pudding is made ; and
P.one of the family ever tastes beer, except, perhaps, the
I.9an gets some now and then from his master. The man
is in constant work at Its. a-week, but sometimes he
gets piece-work, and then earns 15s. weekly. The cot-
%ige, which is rented at 2s. weekly, is clean and well
drained ; its literary furniture consists of two Bibles and
ti -ew Testament : there is no Prayer-book, as the in-
mates are Dissenters. The distress of the family arises
from the unusual circumstance that the children are
,early all girls, and hence can earn nothing. Were the
iciest or the second a boy, he would probably add 2s. to
a-week to the general income by assisting his father.
The actual weekly expenditure is as follows :
s. d.

6 gallons of flour at 16d. 8 0
lb, soap 0 3.
lb. candles 0 4.
1 lb. butter 1 0
4 lb. sugar 0 21
11 lb. meat 0 9
Teas t
Starch, pepper, and salt 0 2
1 lb. cheese 0 6
'Worsted, cotton, tape, &c 0 3

Total 11 91
Here, and subsequently in the accounts of the
veekly expenditure of labourers, I shall not insert the
',.;lt or clothing, as I find that these are generally not
.liil for weekly, but are reserved to be paid off at liar-
. rit, or at odd times, when more than the usual wages

,;:11.:1 earned.
here is another wooden cottage, in bad repair, con-
ainu'ig four rooms, which cost 301. to build, and is
-,-,.,ntea,,at 2s. 6d. a- week. It is tenanted by a man, his
tNlfe, aria lour children-7two boys, a girl, and an infant.
lney sleep in the two uppr
*rooms ; the two boys in a
'Jed in one room, and the man, Ns wife, and the baby, in
one bed in the other, a contrivance being made upon the
floor for the girl to sleep. The sitting room is ten feet
m.qaare, and contains two plain deal tables, and a very
-*mall stained one, a neat corner cupboard, three shelves
pith earthenware ; a few small ornaments are on the
ei:imney-piece, and above it hang some small prints in
biliek frames. There is a calico window-curtain, two
bits of carpet on the floor, a cradle, four chairs,
a an arm-chair. Some swinging-book-shelves, with
r:..ligious hooks. Altogether this cottage has a neat,
cleanly, and orderly appearance. The man's earnings
13s. a week, but he is occasionally out of work :
the wife, from ill-health, earns but little. The family
consume weekly 53- gallons of flour, 3 gallons of pota-
tog, 1 lb. of cheese, -4 oz. of tea, 2 oz. of coffee, lb.
(?f sugar fur the infant, 33d. worth of milk, -ph. of soap,
I lb. of candles, 1 cwt. of coals.
I have at former times frequently collected informa-
tion as to the precise method in which a labourer spends
his wages ; anti, as the point seems to me very important
towards understanding the condition and economy of the
-loot-, I will give several of their dietaries.
In 1837, an aged man and his wife expended their
Teekly earnings of 6s. in the following way :
s. d.
Bread, 2 gallons
Bacon, Ilb
Butter Ilb
'fea, 2 oz.
Sugar, Ilb
Coals, 1 cwt

Total
It would he quite impossible for the old couple to live
well at at present, in consequence of the increased
,rice of provisions ; but the tea, the sugar, and the bacon,
071, disappear from the board, and the money so saved
rocs to pay the additional cost of the bread. At the same
period, a man, his wife, and seven children, in Sussex,
spent their wages thus :

s. d.
7 0
1 51,-
2 6
0
O 9
0 3}
0 3

6 gallons of bread
2 lbs. of bacon
2f lbs. of butter
14, oz. of tea
11 lb. of sugar
lb. of candles...
lb. of soap

Total l2 9
The following i 3 the expenditure of a labouring
man, with a wife and six children, at present. The
contrast between these two cases is not so perfect as
;1- might be ; as, in the preceding case, the labourer
purchased bread ; in the following flour. The expense,
herefore, of making the bread and baking it should
lie added to the account ; and this will more than make
-11 p the 6d. difference in the whole sum. Though there
is one less in family than in the last case, it will be
obvious how much the increased price of provisions has
deteriorated the condition of the family :

S. (1.
8 0
0 3
0 8
1 0
0 6

6 gallons of flour
Yeast
1 lb. of meat and of suet
1 lb. of butter
1 lb. of cheese

lb. of candles
- lb. of soap 0 31
Potatoes
Worsted, starch, cotton, and tape 0 3
No sugar.
Total

12 3

I might insert numerous other examples of labour-
ers' dietaries ; but I trust the above will be sufficient
to show, in some degree, how their wages arc expended.
They, however, are insufficient, as they do not. show
he quality of the articles procured. For instance,
since the price of corn has risen, many of the labourers
have been compelled to resort to an inferior sort of flour,
termed " sharps," in order to obtain a sufficiency of
coqd. Tea, were it not an article so subject to adultera-
tion, ought to have materially risen in price, as the i►n-
portation in 1840, compared with that of 1836, shows a
diminution of 17,571,7621b5. I believe, however, the
reason it has not, is; that its place has been supplied. by
a deleterious mixture, of which some of the medical
:nen make great complaints. It is noon, too usuallgt
drunk without sugar, as the great rise in price in the
atter article has causes! it nearly to disappear from the
,";,l ourer's Tuffners Report on the Economy of
me Labouring Classes i►i Surrey and Kent.

PRESBYTERY OF ARBROATH.
During the two lust weeks the Presbytery of Arbroath
have had two several meetings. In the first of these,
Mr. Lumsden, by way of reference, brought before the
Presbytery a case from the Kirk-Session of Barry, of
contumacy. The Kirk-Session had summoned before
(item a farm-servant, for the guilt of Sabbath profana-
tion, because he had the funeral of his child on that day
before
public worship. The individual attended with a
l'rieml; but would not follow the Session into a Private
louse, and therefore was held by them guilty of eon-
Tho Presbytery enjoined the individual to ha
,;enunoned, with certification ; from which judgment
Alr. Muir dissented, because the proceeding was unne-
,•Assarily harsh and irregular.
Mr. l)ymock came also with a verbal reference con-
etsrn;ng a similar charge. Some of the elderswere
averse to give Church privileges to two pv.sons
one for pumping water for the railway engine on Sab-
bath, and the other for assorting letters on that
day. The Presbytery refused to receive a verbal refer-
(4l.2e ; but some of the members hinted that he should be
cautious of meddling with people of influence.
The Presbytery then proceeded to deal with Mr. Car-
ruthers, who gave in a written statement explaining
some
,of the facts libelled. We understand that great cow-
Di.,,ints were made by some members that he did not
mak,' a full confession. After a long and senseless
filtereat.ong motions were made by Mr. Lumsden, Mr.
Weir, anti Mr. Crichton—some of which were very
departed from, on account of one Mr. Muir :
That the case should be postponed to another day,
when Mr. Cai:uthers should be again called in." At
the second meeting, Messrs. Laird and Lumsden com-
plained bitterly of the -very unsatisfactory degree of con-
cession made. Motions were then made by the Non-in-
trasionist, and carried ; from which the agent of the
venerable clergyman appealed.
It is not to be overlooked that in this case the more
experienced ministers and elders, and the whole parish,
.vithout an exception, are on the side of the accused ;
and that all the youthful Non-intrasioaists are on that
of severity. The grey hairs, the amiable, the honest, and
pious character of the accused, render him an object of
regard to the whole conntq. He was never known to
ch a mean action, to frequent improper company, or seek
vicious indulgence. He was hospitable to the extent of
his means, even to these whose means are now employed
to, olest him. One of the severe members told him, in
defence of the unlimited period of suspension, that he
-would not consent to repone him. till Mr, Carruthers'
mind was changed. What (lid this mean ? This agent
very properly told this member that he could judge only
of the mind by the actions. The parish to a man con •
time. to adhere to their minister, while some of his
quondam popular Non-intrusion neighbours are fast de-
clining, just because they intrude every where but where
they ought to be found.—Duadee Chronicle.

NEWCASTLE.--POLITICAL PERSECUTION.—
'We arc informed that a leading Tory in this town, an
extensive hat manufacturer, is slily and gradually, but
xevertheless decidedly dismissing such of his workmen as
voted for Mr. Harris at the late election. We hope this
may not prove true : for, if it be true, we shall assuredly
devote ourselves to the unpleasant task of making several
,:wkard exposures concerning the itfasonie individual re-
'.:erred to.—Staffordshire .Examiner.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY

GLOBE.—The difficulty Sir Robert Peel will expe-
rience
in satisfying his howling pack of place-Bunters,
becomes every day more obvious, and the Times of this
morning is employed in smacking the whip pretty smartly
in the ears of the hungry crew, just to give them the hint
that the game is not for, them, though they hare had all
the fatigue of pursuing it. The. article in the Times is
an amusing compound' of soft words and threatening at-
titudes—of
honey on the lip, and tomahawk in the and.
" I'm quite sure you will be very complacent. You are
such a distinguished phalanx of constitutional gentle-
men," says the Thunderer in morals, while his acts are
to brandish a bludgeon over the heads of those to whom
he is addressing the most complimentary epithets. If
Sir Robert Peel really could do without the persons al-
luded to it would be all very well, but as they happen
to know how important will be their aid to the ex-
pectant Premier, it is not likely they will be content
to be flattered into forbearance or dragooned into dis-
interestedness. A crowd of schoolboys that have
been long hungering after a promised cake, cannot
be more eager to get a slice than are the Tories to get
a finger in the pie saf office ; and it is absurd to suppose
that any but the very softest of the party will be put off
by the old schoolboy trick of " Those who ask shan't
have any, and those who don't ask don't want any."
But what. is Peel to do.? He cannot satisfy all, and
yet all will insist on being satisfied. He cannot emu-
late " the soldier who lived on his pay, and spent half-a-
crown out of sixpence a-day." He cannot come to a
composition, for he will not have a penny in the pound to
offer to his rapacious Conservative creditors. The Tory
list of Want Places is as formidable as that in the co-
lumns of the Times, and the applications are out of all
proportion beyond the vacancies. To mention one instance.
What is to be done with the three expectant Chancellors,
with only one Woolsack to offer them ? The Great Seal
makes too great an impression on an ambitious mind
to allow of an easy resignation of the prospect of posses-
sing it. The Tory Joint Stock Company turns out, like
many others, to hare been designed only for the profit
of the immediate Directors, and the duty, of answering
calls seems all that is to devolve on the main body of ad-
venturers. When the clamour for a dividend meets, as it
must, with no satisfactory reply, disappointment will lead
to disgust, the bubble will have burst, and the backing out
will become general. The Post, which is by turns senti-
mental and severe—now sending forth paragraphs replete
with pathos, and now thundering out impotent anathemas
—has this morning gently and almoft affectingly reproved
us, for throwing in the teeth of the Tories the unwelcome
fact, that it is not a " bed of roses" they are about to lie
upon. With all our disposition to pity the unfortunate,
we eannot carry our sympathy for Sir Robert Peel so far
as to in any way help him out of the mess in which he
has voluntarily placed himself. We respect a dignified
and defeated foe ; but when we see an enemy doing all
he can to cause the ground to give way beneath our feet,
and then marching deliberately into the mud he has him-
self thrown, we must be permitted to enjoy a little merri-
ment at his sticking there, before we charitably come for-
ward to help him out of it.
COURIER.—The Chronicle has a long and lugubrious
article this morning in exaltation of the miraculous me-
rits of free trade principles, and their efficacity wherever
and whenever hitherto applied, with the inferential intent
of attributing the present depressed condition of various
important branches of trade and manufactures to the
sole prevalence of a too rigorously protective system.
Our Contemporary draws liberally of course. in support
of his views upon the late Mr. Huskisson, for whose
authority we ourselves profess to entertain no mean
consideration, and to the quotation of whose senti-
ments, as we find them cited to suit the particular
case, we are far from desiring to urge any objection. For
example an isolated passage is given from his speeches,
showing that, " there are occasions on which it is the
duty of a vigilant Government to watch the signs of the
times, and to accommodate their policy to those changes
in the world, under the continued operation of which a
blind adherence to our former system would no longer be
either safe or expedient." It may, with equal truth, be
said that it is the duty of a vigilant Government so to
time and adapt such changes as may be found advisable
in the fiscal and economical system, as that they shall
work the least possible detriment, or none at all, to inte-
rests existing, long established, and created even, by the
errors if you will, of former legislation. However
humble in extent and importance may be the interest
which contemplated changes may affect, it is entitled to
a fair hearing, and may not be rashly dealt with and sacri-
ficed upon some special assumption of general benefit. A
wise statesman will net be led astray with a false but flashy
theory about the " greatest happiness of the greatest
number," because the sacred obligation he contracts to-
wards the country at large, whose affairs he is called
upon to administer, is impartially to study the good of
every class and the prosperity of every interest alike,
that is, the greatest happiness, not of a majority alone,
but of the minority also—the good of all. Unquestion-
ably all such protections and prohibitions as are inopera-
tive to the end proposed should be mitigated or abolished.
If they are burdensome to the consumer without adequate
benefit to the home producer the case contemplated by
Mr. Huskisson would have arrived, when speaking of
"the removal of useless and inconvenient restrictions,
the doing away of prohibitions, and the lowering of
duties so excessive, as to be in fact, prohibitory on the
productions of other countries—restrictions, prohibi-
tions, and duties, which, without benefit, nay highly in-
jurious to ourselves, have produced all the evil effects,
and given rise in other parts of the world to the retalia-
tory &Marts of foreign Governments to put down the
commerce of the country." It remains to prove the
special cases in point which the Chronicle, restricting it-
self within vague generalities, does not adventure upon,
although we shall not affect ignorance of the particular,
however Indirect, bearing of its logic upon corn, sugar, and
timber-laws. Waiving for the present however the reference
to those important subjects, we shall content ourselves with
indieating the exaggerating spirit in which he is disposed to
regard the practical consequences of former modifica-
tions of our protective system. Without exactly de-
siring to impugn the motives of expediency, or of policy,
which dictated the relaxation of our navigation laws, and
the modification of the prohibitions against foreign silk
manufactures, we may observe that the beneficial results
of each have been grossly overrated. The immediate
elfect• of the changes in the silk trade was, as is well
known, the ruin of Maccleiflehl and Spitalfields—in the
case of the latter irretrievable ruin. Doubtless that
ruin might have been accomplished some years later by
the active concurrence in the silk manufacture on which
the enterprising and intelligent capitalists "and traders
of Manchester had entered, with all the appliances of
superior machinery, resources, and energy. But in
the meantime, the machinery,,
and Macclesfield people
would have been " let down," to use ahomely phrase, more
gently and by degrees, so as with the difference of time
to have gradually accommodated themselves to the revo-
lution in trade, so far as the change in its localities, which
was iii course of operation. The Manchester traders
had been actively extending the silk manufacture in
that town for several years before Mr. Huskisson's fiscal
reforms were agitated or announced, and if their first
steps were naturally slow and cautious, their progress was
not the less sure. The railway locomotive does not start
" at score" at once, but is gradually accelerated in speed
after the steam power first painfully puts the train in
motion, and then carries it along at an increasing rate
until the maximum of velocity is attained for which
the power is calculated. - We do not entertain the
least question ourselves but that the silk manufac-
ture would have been equally flourishing by this time
in Manchester and its neighbourhood without, as with,
Mr. Huskisson's measures, and there are few men who
have any knowledge of the subject who will gainsay the
opirion. The only real gain by any change yet operated
in respect of the silk trade consists in the removal of
those impediments, and that quasi prohibition, to the
export of raw silk conceded of late years by the French
Government.
STANDARP.--The emeute at Toulouse appears to
be at an end, and there is reason to think that the ac-
tual defiance of the law has been exaggerated, as hap-
pens tvniversally in cases of this kind ; the cause of dis-
content—the deficiency of revenue, and the painful
pressure upon the people—scarcely admit of ex-
aggeration. Nevertheless, France continues the for-
tification of her capital and the augmentation of
her navy, no human being threatening to molest or in-
sult her—still prosecutes the wasteful and barren war in
Africa. This, which can scarcely be called by any more
respectful name than fatuity, is not to be laid to the
charge of the King. He, a man of strong sense and
benevolent dispositions, well knows that peace, con-
ducive to the happiness of all*States, is indispensable to
the existence of order in France, and he will preserve
Peace as long as he can. Neither are the mass of the
people to he blamed—they are kindly and well-disposed.
It is the eleventh plague—the swarm of empty and hungry
• biter"leuss, creatures as ravenous as the beasts of the de-
Bert,pd an de"dlled
with just " as much reason its Heaven
gives an ape."
It is this pestilent swarm of the
wants,ap-
propriation the Roebucks, &c., of France, which
Borders the country as they would disorder this coun-
trrayr,e iifiN,rhanaacen)tinkceTpotfhseemnseinanedrdleera.rniNnvge(cc.ahatsasects two?)
our way to the end of it, but we can now easily enough
forgive -Napoleon's treatment of the ideologists as noxious
vermin.

GERMAN ACTolis.—c:NiCe sere fortunate in
mi,).erformers of Ger-
seeing one of the great dramatic performers
,one
_of the many,'Emile Devrient. The
ascertained
Prin-
cess Amelia's ; a tale of domestic sorr"ow,
scasenl.
effect, no
by my interpreters. There wiallensoeene
was
note oncefa
dramatic contrivance to aid it.
shifted during the play. Devrient seemed tvoasm
as I could judge merely from his action, expressiOnasancl
voice, to deserve the applause showered on him. 'The
playing was all natural and the voices of the women
marvellously sweet. Have I never yet remarked to you
the sweet, low tone of the German woman's yoke ?
From the cultivated actress to your chambermaid, it is
a musical pleasure to hear them speak. Is it an atmos-
pheric effect, or the breath of a placid temper ? The
latter, I thought, when, a moment since, my inkstand
was overset, and the girl summoned to repair the mis-
chief held up her hands, smiled, and uttered, in a Bute-
like tone, a prolonged g—u—t ! (good !)"—Miss Seck-
wick.
Yesterday having been set apart by the General
Assembly as a day of fasting, humiliation, and thanks-
giving, was observed with (Went outward solemnity
in this, town, nearly all the shops being eJosed during
the whole day. In all the Established Churches but
one, divine service was celebrated, and the attendance
was respectable. By a number, however, the day
was kept as a holiday, and the steamboats and railway
met with great encouragement, the fineness of the
weather inducin_g Dissenters_, and not a few of the
more lax Churchmen, tg) take a trip to the country.
The down trains in the ettrly_part a the day, and the up-.
trains in the afternoon were long and well tilled, At balf-
past six 22 carriages, and at half-past seven 14, were de.
spatched up, while at the departure of the ]attend crowd
of many hundreds was waiting in the streets for the next
train.—Greenoch "Martian