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THE MAGAZINES. and the nerves shudder. It abounded with dark and ' FRASER. THE SWINTON MURDER. • SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES,
BLACK If 00D. goblin passages; it was the whirlwind blowing among The most readable paper in the present number is Edwin Sellars was brought up on Tuesday at Last night Macbeth was represented again at this I N BANKS, ASSRANCE. AND OTHER CON-
" Old Ebony for the month,"-" Kit North again in the crags of the Jungfrsu, and swarming with the forms entitled " The Praslin Family," and the following the Sheffield Police-court, charged with having, on suburban dramatic temple, by the powerful company PANIES' STOCK.
the field,"-" A racy new number of Blackwood,"-as and cries of the witches of the Walpurgis• it was Eurv-
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0- short sketch of the career of the father of the last the 4th September, wilfully, maliciously, and with whom Mr. Phelps has gathered under his banner ; From t'ze Official List,
dice traversing the corridors of hell it was midnight
the piratical placards proclaim upon the walls of every Duke sufficiently explains the interest which the pre- malice aforethought, killed and murdered one Caleb and never was this great play better set before the rtrsLisriED EVERY TITU.SDAT AND FRIDAY EVENING.
over the wilderness, with the clouds drifting before the
city, and in the windows of every. print-shop in the - LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1.
moon ; it was a hurricane on the deep sea ; it was
United States. At least, as they are declarad to do everything horrible, wierdlike, and tumultuous. And son :- Mrs. Elizabeth Barker, the widow of the murdered stricken Thane with almost more than his accustomed
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by one of the merriest and smartest of the correspon- through the very fury of these passages there would " The Duke Choiseul Praslin, father of the last Duke, man, said, that on the 4th of September, her husband, ability. The deep fervid eloquence, and the terrific ZOI
man, passion and guilty fear of the doomed were ex-ondents to the Magazine-see page 430 of this num- start tones of ravishing and gentle beauty-the incense early espoused the revolutionary party; and as he sepa- who left home alone between seven and eight o'clock Dividend Amount
ber for October. We break through the regular rou- of an adoring heart wafted to the black heavens rated himself from the nobility to which he belonged, in the evening, was brought home about eleven o'clock cellently depicted. Miss Addison is, perhaps, the Name of Company, per of Paid. I Price.
tinelof the articles-on the true Flaccusian principle of through the lightnings and lamentations of Nineveh. never emigrated. He gave in his adhesion to Buonaparte with several wounds, his head being cut and bruised, best representative of Lady Macbeth on the stage • Annum. share.
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plunging in medias res-for the purpose of calling Again the musician changed the purpose of his im- after the 18 Brumaire. In 1805, he was named one of
morning. woman drawn by the poet. Immediately on the en- Au.stralasia ••'•'• • • • • 4Q 0 0 40 0 0 -
attention off-hand to the paper in question. 46 Maga provisation ;it was no longer dismal and appalling, it the imperial chamberlains; and in 1811, president of the
in America"-a suggestive title ! a title fragrant of was pathetic. The instrument became, as it were, the Electoral College of Seine and Marne. His cry then Thomas Gore said that about half-past ten o'clock, trance of Miss Addison, and whilst perusing the BntshNorth American 51. per Cent. 50 0050 0 0 44,43
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on the night of the 4th of September, he was passing high-toned letter from Macbeth, she suddenly fell aolonial. -
the usquebaugh of good Mr. Ambrose-reminiscent organ of sadness, it became eloquent with an inarticulate was, Vive a jamais le Grand Napoleon! In 1813, he
woe ; it was abreast bursting with affliction, a voice gave new proofs of devotion, and on 6th January, 1814,
close by Mr. Barker's potteries, near Swinton, when back in a fainting fit, and was carried off. The cur- Londonnd Westminstr Si.er lOO 0 0 20 0 0 -
of the crutch of King Christopher-commemorative broken with sorrow, a soul dissolving with emotions. was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. On the Joint-Stock .• • per cent. 50 0010 0 0 -
• of the Ettrick Shepherd and his boon companion of Then the variable harmonies rose from pensiveness into 31st March. 1814, when a number of Royalists in the a man walked past. We exchanged a " good night" tain, of course, immediately fell, and Mr. Marston Metropolitan - 25 007 10 0
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the Nodes. The article is in truth a delightful gos- frenzy, from frenzy into the noise and the shocks of a Place Louis XV., raised the cries of ' Vive le Roi, vi- as we passed. When I had gone on a few paces came forward and sought the indulgence of the audi- Provincial of Ireland• • 1 Si. per cent. 100 0025 0 0 -
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sipping, bantering, egotistical, querrulous, enthusias- great battle ; they swelled to the din of contending vent les Bourbons !' the answer of the Duke de Praslin,
tic letter describing the ruthless manner in which armies, to the storm and vicissitudes of warlike deeds, colonel of the fir,t legion of the National Guard, was out, but he could not stand. John Heely and Wil- performances were resumed, and Miss Addison pro- Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
)lain Turner happened to pass at the time, and we ceeded to the end to act with her usual ability. Mr. i
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" But no sooner was this ordre de chases destroyed, than carried him towards Barker's house, and called for a Marston was an effective Macduff. The other cha- Union and at an intolerably reduced rate, in the United legions when-
M. de Praslin turned round voile face. On the 6th of light. Barker's son came out with a light, and re- ratters were well sustained. The scenery is beautiful
States. The fat-simile, or Icon, as the writer, in a " Gaily to glory they come,
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April, six days afterwards, he gave in his adhesion to all
facetious spirit of classicality calls it, is produced at Like a king in his pomp, cognised the man as his father. We carried him into in the extreme. The theatre was filled ; and it would
the acts of the Senate, which pronounced the downfal of
New York, with established ancies at Boston, Phi- To the blast of the tromp, the house. He appeared sensible, but did not speak. seem that the oftener the great play is represented, as
And the roar of the mighty drum!" Napoleon, whom, in Louis-Phillipian phrase. he called
ladelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, New Orleans, and rordre de choses-acts too which recalled the Bourbons He was much cut and bruised, and looked as if he had written by the great poet, the greater crowds does it Companies. , A per r cc' Companies.
Paris; with puffs, headed by such exclamatory As the triumphant tones of the instrument rolled up ? • • been knocked down.
by name. Not content with these demonstrations, which draw towards Sadler.. Wells. a 2 Annum. Annum.
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sentences as those quoted at the beginning of this from its recesses, and filled the apartment with a torrent
somewhat surprised royalty, he placarded the walls of John Heely said-I am a potter. I lodged with
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column ; with travelling agents dispatched a thousand of majestic sounds, as the musician swayed to and fro in
Paris with a proposal for a statue 9 of Henry IV., in which, Barker, and continue to lodge with his widow. This POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
miles inland to lowa and Wisconsin ; and spreading thee enthusiasm of his sublime inspirations and enhanced
' amidst other fustian and fanfaronade, were these words: witness corroborated the statement of the previous IVe yesterday had the pleasure of bearing, at the
divine symphony by the crash of many thrilling andBarnsley• •.. 160 121. ' 180 Macclesfield 100 - 15
southwards from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to -, Oui, sublime Henri, c'est toi ce Sont lee traits chiris witness. He had also met a man coming from where Polytechnic Institution, a most instructive, yet pleas- Basingstoke.. 100 -
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but of the Montezumas. A more powerful argument ceivable dignity to every lineament, to his capacious rons ton image; elle nous dirs, etc.'
"On the 29th of the month, the Duke was admitted to Some further evidence was given in proof of the avoiding the beaten tracts of former lecturers, con-
prisoner's having alighted from the train from Shef- fined himself on this occasion principally to the em- I,oD:ieuirsaibineyryes,..c.
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cently appeared than ;this same paper of " Maga in fierce protrusion of his under-lip, to the mobile and 15120 76/1..p10.5c.. I_3o
some address. On the 4th June he was created a peer night of the 4th inst.
America.' It may console the publishers of Black- generous expression of his mouth, to the tawny yellow Doctor stated that considerable interest had been
But on the following year, when 'le petit coporal'
Inspector Attwood said he took the prisoner into excited recently by the fact of the House of Lords
wood with the knowledge that Maga is the only one of his complexion, to the brown depths of his noble and
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. 'Hilarity as to be copied in fac-simile-that the old glorious sounds that reverberated through the chamber, this was unpardonable, and by an ordonnance of Louis The trousers he had on were stained with blood. endeavour to show that water, in its expanded state, Grantham .. 1501 1 121. - Severn and
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. familiar portrait of Geordy Buchanan, encircled with XVII., of the 25th ofJuly, 1805, M. de Choiseul-Prasiin A surgeon deposed to the nature of the injuries could, by displacing large volumes of air, contribute fIIn t & Avu 39; 7s. 6d. 5U Trnt &MI
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. its frame-work of thistle, is discoverable in all guar- of melody as it gushed from the piano and streamed out ceased to form a portion of the Chamber of Peers. From Barker had received. to a purpose so desirable as that of renewing the Lancaster... 471 1/. 10s. - sly ..
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ters and among all classes of North America, in the upon the dusk of the evening While C • agliostro was that period, the Duke, whether in or out of France, The prisoner was committed for trial upon the atmosphere of crowded buildings. It is not in our beecis&LiYrPl
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wigwams of the Redskins, among the natives of the listening in an ecstasy of admiration, he was startled by became a Frondeur ; and, as an ostentatious dinner- charge of committing two burglaries, but Mr. OVER.. power to follow the Doctor through the historical Leicstr &Nth 83 at. 36 Binning.] • %
1 _ bay_ of Massachussets and the immigrants of the a sudden clangour among the bass-notes-the music giver and patron of newspaper writers, he was not with- END, who presided, said there was not sufficient evis details of his exordium-suffice it to say, that he dis- Loughborogh [142 701. 530 Wilts & Bits 67 11. 11
t Oregon, on the table of the schoolmaster in the seemed to be jumbled into confusion, and the ear was out influence in Paris in directing attention to the Duke dente to commit him on the charge of murder. tinctly proved that the plan of ventilating by steam DOMES.
desk of the schoolboy, in the barracks of Jefferson- stunned by a painful and intolerable dissonance. - On of Orleans, now Louis Philippe. Hence the intimacy
was not of a date so recent as many imagined, but
ville, and the public libraries of Washin t in the lk' •tetl ' he ' dthat the
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Praslins were doing the work of the youngest branch of Name of Compass!. per of Paid. ' Price.
. villas bordering the Hudson, and among
the most had let one hand fall abstractedly upon the key-board, the Bourbons; lied that good father of a family who Yesterday morning great excitement prevailed in show the displacement of air by steam, Dr. Bach- Annum. Share. I
secluded planters in the Carolinas ; but it must afford while the other executed, by itself, a passage of extra-
now reigns and governs in France has always been the the vicinity of Oakley-street, Lambeth, in conse- hoffner produced a most complete set of mechanical
sufficient cause for arousing their indignation by telling,ordinary difficulty and involution.
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rent his or her character,Y who can do him an honest William Coo • M ' l Isabella-of the institutionproduced some most magnificent East and West India.- 61. pr cent. Stock. - 1224
Alas l the supposition was too true : Beethoven was
• New York, carry off so vast a share of the fi pro ts job in France, in S •
part of the world. Wit- street,
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effects. Among other results we saw solid bodies, Country ... 1/. per sh. 100 o o - -
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without partaking in the labour or the responsibility ness Sophie Dawes, Madame de Feuc eres, Minos, Duke
premate tho full splendour of hisigantic genius Mr. Cooper, his wife, and four children, have been such as paper, eggs, &c., drawn with immense velocity St Katharine 5 per cent. stock. - 83
Putting the profit out of the question-there is the those who conceive, with a distinguished ' of Rianzares, and Gonlazes Brabo of infamous repute'Southampton -• .. •••• ' 21. per cent., 50 0 0 0 0 0 for a considerable period into which •••• •• -••
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glory, and that is not so contemptible. Listen to living,wthat ' Beethoven began where Haydn and Mozart On the subject of the "privilege •Of suicide, as the female acquaintance. For several weeks Mr. Cooper steam was allowed to pass;_ while pieces of paste-
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the correspondent from America :- . left off;' those who coincide with an eminent critic, in National calls it, supposed to have been accorded to had forbidden her to come to his house, which tact board and tin were, by the force of the external air, ,
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" The Duke Choiseul Praslin, father of the last Duke,
early espoused the revolutionary party; and as he sepa-
rated himself from the nobility to which he belonged,
never emigrated. He gave in his adhesion to Buonaparte
after the 18 Brumaire. In 1805, he was named one of
the imperial chamberlains; and in 1811, president of the
Electoral College of Seine and Marne. His cry then
was, Vive a jamais le Grand Napoleon! In 1813, he
gave new proofs of devotion, and on 6th January, 1814,
was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. On the
31st March. 1814, when a number of Royalists in the
Place Louis XV., raised the cries of Vive le Roi, vi-
vent les Bourbons !' the answer of the Duke de Praslin,
colonel of the fir:t legion of the National Guard, was
Nous avor.s un ordre de chases 6:abilt I'
" But no sooner was this ordre de choses destroyed, than
M. de Praslin turned round voile face. On the 6th of
April, six days afterwards, he gave in his adhesion to all
the acts of the Senate, which pronounced the downfal of
Napoleon, whom, in Louis-Phillipian phrase. he called
rordre de choses—acts too, which recalled the Bourbons
by name. Not content with these demonstrations, which
somewhat surprised royalty, he placarded the walls of
Paris with a proposal for a statue of Henry IV., in which,
amidst other fustian and fanfaronade, were these words:
Oui, sublime Henri, c'est toi ce sont les traits chicis
qui doivent charmer nos regards. La statue de notre
bon Henri va nous etre rendu: bon Henri, nous rever-
rons ton image; elle nous dir s, etc.'
" On the 29th of the month, the Duke was admitted to
the presence of Charles X., then Monsieur, with a ful-
some address. On the 4th June he was created a peer
But on the following year, when le petit coporal'
appeared, he did not hesitate to njoin his banner, and
was made one of his peers. Such flagrant conduct as
this was unpardonable, and by an ordonnance of Louis
XVII., of the 25th of July, 1805, M. de Choiseul-Prasiin
ceased to form a portion of the Chamber of Peers. From
that period, the Duke, whether in or out of France,
became a Frondeur ; and, as an ostentatious dinner-
giver and patron of newspaper writers, he was not with-
out influence in Paris in directing attention to the Duke
of Orleans, now Louis Philippe. Hence the intimacy
between the families of Orleans and Praslin. The
Praslins were doing the work of the youngest branch of
the Bourbons; and that good father of a family who
now'reigns and governs in France has always been the
man to be intimate with any one, no matter how indiffe-
rent his or her character, who can do him an honest
job in France, in Spain, or any part of the world. Wit-
ness Sophie awes, Madame de Feucheres, Munos, Duke
of Rianzares, and Gonlazes.Brabo of infamous repute."
On the subject of the "privilege of suicide, as the
National calls it, supposed to have been accorded to
the Duke of Praslin by the authorities, the writer of
this paper says—
" The French people have been stigmatised by a writer
in a daily paper, who evidently knows nothing of France,
for being suspicious of the intentions of the French
Government, and unjust to men in power, in reference to
the Duke de Praslin. But French men and French
women well know that in the case of the President
d'Entrecasteaux, a young man of a distinguished family
of the robe, a president of the parliament of Aix, and
who murdered his wife with circumstances of peculiar
atrocity, that the Government ostensibly demanded the
delivery of the culprit wherever he might be found. He
was detected and secured at Lisbon, when a private
letter to the French Minister desired his release, and
permitted his escape from further punishment.
" The Duke de Praslin and the members of his house
were, and Marshal Sebastiani is, in possession of many
secrets in reference to the house of Orleans ; and it was
because some of the people of France were aware of this
that the wicked thought came into their heads that the
' best of republics' might desire the release and permit
the escape of the vilest murderer that has ever appeared ,
in France."
The author of "Literary Legislators" gives up a
group of Parliamentary oddities, consisting of Col.
Sibthorp, Mr. Muntz, Mr. P. Borthwick, Mr.
Blewitt, and Mr. John Collett; and Sam Slick con-
tinues his " Old Judge ;or Life in a Colony." These
are the best papers in this month's Fraser. The
opening paper, on " Free Church Sites," is in many
respects most objectionable. The writer enters not
at all into the discussion of the question raised
by the title of his paper, but takes advantage of the
publication of the evidence recently taken before the
Parliamentary Committee on the subject, to indulge in
an attack upon the character of the late Dr. Chalmers,
an attack which is characterised by virulence without
power, and which is as void of wit or argument as it
is of good taste and good feeling. Had Chalmers been
alive, this miserable effusion of bigoted malevolence
would never have been published ; but the lion is
dead, and therefore the hoof is lifted. The paper on
" Goethe and his Critics" is dreary, albeit the subject
is a good one ; and " The First of October" is a poor
attempt at an imitation of Christopher North=
spiritless and vapid as flat soda water. The
article on the "Carlovingian Romances of the Middle
Ages" is good ; and there is pleasant musical gossip
in " Some Words about Music and the Modern Opera ;"
but, taken as a whole, the present number of Fraser
is not equal to its predecessors.

" Gaily to glory they come,
Like a king in his pomp,
To the blast of the tromp,
And the roar of the mighty drum !"
As the triumphant tones of the instrument rolled up
from its recesses, and filled the apartment with a torrent
of majestic sounds, as the musician swayed to and fro in
the enthusiasm of his sublime inspirations, and enhanced
the divine symphony by the crash of many thrilling and
abrupt discords, the Rosicrucian gazed with awe upon
the responsive grandeur of his countenance. The im-
petus of his superb imagination imparted an incon-
ceivable dignity to every lineament, to his capacious
forehead, to his broad and distended nostrils, to the
fierce protrusion of his . under-lip, to the mobile and
generous expression of his mouth, to the tawny yellow
of his complexion, to the brown depths of his noble and
dilated eyes. There was something in unison with the
glorious sounds that reverberated through the chamber,
even in the enormous contour of his head and the gray
disorder of his hair. He seemed to exult in the torrent
of melody as it gushed from the piano and streamed out
upon the dusk of the evening. While Cagliostro was
listening in an ecstasy of admiration, he was startled by
a sudden clangour among the bass-notes—the music
seemed to be jumbled into confusion, and the ear was
stunned by a painful and intolerable dissonance. On
looking more intently, he perceived that the composer
had let one hand fall abstractedly upon the key-board,
while the other executed, by itself, a passage of extra-
ordinary difficulty and involution. Then, for the first
time, the thought struck him that the musician was deaf.
Alas ! the supposition was too true : Beethoven was
cursed with the loss of his most precious faculty. Those
wbo appreciate the full splendour of his gigantic genius,
those who conceive, with a distinguished composer now
living, that Beethoven began where Haydn and Mozart
left off;' those who coincide with an eminent critic, in
saying that the discords of Beethoven are better than
the harmonies of all other musicians;' those, in fine,
who worship his memory with the devotion inspired by
his compositions, can sympathise in that terrible depri-
vation of the powers of bearing, by which his art was
rendered a blank, and the latter years of his life were
embittered. They will remember with gratitude the
joys they have derived from the effusions of his fruitful
intellect; they will call to their recollection the joyous
chorus, of the, prisoners in Fidelio,—the sublime
and adoring hymn of the Alleluia' in The Mount of
Olives,—the matchless pomp of the Sinfonia Eroica,—
the passionate beauty of the sentiment of Adelaida,—the
aerial grace of his quartetts and waltzes,—the thrilling
and almost awful pathos of the dirge written for six
trombones,—but, above all, they will recal to mind the
noblest work ever conceived and perfected by composer,
one of the greatest achievements of the human mind,
the Mass in D. And, bearing these wonders in their
memory, their hearts will ache for the doom of Ludwig
Von Beethoven. None of these things, however, being
known to the Rosicrucian, his sympathies were aroused
solely by what he himself had heard and witnessed. Still
that was more than enough to fill his whole soul with
commiseration, especially as the sounds again burst in
bewitching concert from the instrument, and a new
inspiration lit up the visage of the musician. Cagliostro
found himself, with profound sorrow, returning into the
silent darkness, and the solemn Voice stealing, for the
last time, into his brain."
We commend the " Vision of Cagliostro"' to the
perusal of the million : its moral should be stamped
upon our hearts—" Earthly happiness is attainable
through the virtuous use of our five senses r The
recently published " Memoirs of Viscountess Sandon"
have suggested to Blackwood a charming conver-
sational chapter about " The Times of George II."
"Art in the Early Christian Ages" is a critical dis-
sertation founded on the celebrated work of Professor
Gottfried Kinkel. " The Portrait," being a tale
abridged from the Russian of G6gol, by Thomas B.
Shaw, is a literary curiosity for which the readers of
Maga will be grateful. "Hounds and Horses at
Rome" is a smart contribution, telling all about the
state of the sporting world in the Eternal City, and
certainly proving, as the exordium indicates, that
Englishmen do not do at Rome as the Romans do.
Delta indites a graceful song on the Earl of Dal-
housie's departure to India as Governor-General.
"My Friend the Dutchman" closes the number so
pleasantly that we are fain to quote once more the
broadsides upon the walls of New York, "A racy
new number of Blackwood," and to exclaim again
with the correspondent from America—" Long live
King Christopher !"

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
'We yesterday had the pleasure of hearing, at the
Polytechnic Institution, a most instructive, yet pleas-
ing, lecture, by Dr. Bachhoffner, on the Physical
Effects of a Jet of Steam. The learned gentleman,
avoiding the beaten tracts of former lecturers, con-
fined himself on this occasion principally to the em-
ployment of steam as an agent in ventilation. The
Doctor stated that considerable interest had been
excited recently by the fact of the House of Lords
being ventilated by steam ; and therefore he should
endeavour to show that water, in its expanded state,
could, by displacing large volumes of air, contribute
to a purpose so desirable as that of renewing the
atmosphere of crowded buildings. It is not in our
power to follow the Doctor through the historical
details of his exordium—suffice it to say, that he dis-
tinctly proved that the plan of ventilating by steam
was not of a date so recent as many imagined, but
was brought before the world in the year 1794. To
show the displacement of air by steam, Dr. Bach-
hoffner produced a most complete set of mechanical
apparatus, and, aided by the enormous hydro-machine
of the institution, produced some most magnificent
effects. Among other results we saw solid bodies,
such as paper, eggs, &c., drawn with immense velocity
through a tube, into the upper part of which a jet of
steam was allowed to pass ; while pieces of paste-
board and tin were, by the force of the external air,
brought into such close contact with the orifice, that
considerable force was required for their removal.
Our impression was certainly much in favour of the
economy and feasibility of the plan. In introducing
this subject, we ought to mention that the Professor
entered very carefully and yet simply into the law of
fluids, whether gaseous or liquid, and thus prepared
the minds of his audience for the full appreciation of
his succeeding experiments. As a whole, we pro-
nounce the lecture a masterpiece of sound, yet popular,
philosophical instruction.

Mr. Cooper, his wife, and four children, have been
for a considerable period annoyed by the visits of a
female acquaintance. For several weeks Mr. Cooper
had forbidden her to come to his house, which tact
gave the woman (Watson) much offence. However,
she yesterday paid a visit to Mr. Cooper's residence
during his absence, Mrs. Cooper likewise being from
home at the time. She entered the front room, where
sbe sat down in presence of Mr. Cooper's children, and
after a few minutes had elapsed the elder girl detected
her placing something white in a large pitcher of broth
which happened to be on the sideboard, but which cir-
cumstance at the time did not cause any suspicion.
The woman subsequently left the house, bidding the
children " good day." Shortly afterwards Mrs. Cooper
returned and commenced preparations for dinner,
placing the said broth in a saucepan to warm up for
the children's dinner, which they afterwards partook
of rather heartily, the whole of them remarking as
to its strange and salt taste. A brief space of time
after they had partaken of the broth the whole of the
children were seized with violent vomiting, and upon
searching the bottom of that which remained in the
saucepan, a white substance which had a glassy ap-
pearance was found. A surgeon was called in, who
immediately upon examination, pronounced the child-
ren to be suffering from the effects of oxalic acid.
The stomach-pump was at once brought into active
requisition, and the whole of them were as speedily
as possibly relieved of the poison, although two of
them are in a very precarious condition from the ac-
ti on of the deadly mineral.
The mother and the two elder children were out of
danger, .but the youngest are still in a great state of
sufrering from the effects of the poison.
A paper labelled "oxalic acid poison " has since
been found in the room, which leaves no doubt as to
the nature of the poison.

" I can pardon Mr. Blackwood should his temper be
a little ruffled, when he compares his trouble and re-
sponsibility, and limited sale, with the sans souci and
universal market of Reprint and Co.; but surely, old
Christopher North should smile with inward satisfaction
when, not by cannon or carnage, but as the result of a
greatness thrust upon him, he finds his empire, like her
Majesty's, the girdle of the earth, and his sovereignty
recognised, in the world of letters, where hers can claim
no subjects, and demand no homage. That crutch is
now the sceptre of bookdom. Its shadow stretcheth over
all lands, whether the dawn project it athwart the broad
Atlantic, or the Boreal light send it overland to farthest
India. Who reads not Maga ? You shall find the
smutched lieutenant turning over its pages by the camp-
fire, after a terrible scratch with the Seikhs; and within
the same twenty-tour hours you may fairly surmise that
some green mountain volunteer, on the wrong side of
the Rio Grande, has lighted a pine knot, and is reading
one of the Marlborough articles to bis mess, with ex-
temporary paralellisms in favour of General Taylor,
which the shade of the great Churchill must not venture
to overhear. Swinging in his hammock, the midship-
man holds Blackwood to the smoky lamp of the orlop,
as he plunges and pitches around Cape Horn. Lounging
in his state-room, and bound for Hong-Kong, the sea-
sick passenger corrects his nausea with the same spicy
page. and bewitched with the flavour, forgets to sigh for
Madeira, which he has passed, or to look out for St.
Helena, which is somewhere On his lee. It keeps the
old Admiral from the deck as his keel scrapes the coral-
reefs of the South Pacific; and a stale back number, from
the bottom of a seaman's chest, is purchased as a prize,
by him who cruises among seals, icebergs, and sper-
maceti whales.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
, -
£ s. d. , £ s. d.
Albion • • • • • • • •................Si. 10s. 500 0 0 5O 0 0 75
Alliance Brit. and For. per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 -
Ditto Marine. • • • • • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Xtlas • • •
British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 (3%
Glericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 2 10 0 20%
County - - - - - • • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
i;rown .. • • .. • • • • • • • • 12s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 11
eagle . • ....
Eng. & Scot. Law • ... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
European Life • • .... I% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. -
Freemasons' . • • • • .. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe .. •....... 61. per cent. Stock. - 124
Guardian • . • . • • • ..... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 46%
Imperial Fire • • • • • • • 61. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 210
Imperial Life • • • • • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Indemnity Marine.... 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 5 13 1 -
Law Life ............ 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
Landon Fire • • • • • • • • 108. 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
London Ship • .• • • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
Marine.. ........... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per et . 50 0 0 2 0 0 21.859 d
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 -
National Life.... -
Palladium Life ...... -
Pucenix .. 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - 185
Protector Life • • • • ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 3s.
Prorident,Life • ....... 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Rock Life • • • . • . • . • • • • 43. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 181
Sun Fire • • • • . • . • • .. - - -
Ditto Life • ... - - -
Victoria Life .. • • - - 4 0 0 -
LIST 01' SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. . Price.
Annum. Share.
------ ---.,
£ 5. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 167
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 150
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 200
Commercial Bank .. • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 162
National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 13%
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr sent. - 50 0 0 88
Western Bank • • • • • • • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 81
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 63i
Clydesdale Bank. • • • • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 12%
Eastern Bank.. • • 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11/ 58
Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 41. Rs
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 5 0 0 61. lOs
City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 121. 8s
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 235. Od
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1254
Insur. Co. of Seen/2d • • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 8%
Korth British Insur. • . 5% /. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 254(
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent.loo 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 1100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin.&Glasg. Railway 1/.los. pers. 50 0 0 50 0 0 51xd
Ditto, 54 Shares 7s. 6d. p. s. ' 12 10 0 All paid. I 13
Edits., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 i -
las'gw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. I -
laspy & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 18%
'.315,1,*w & Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. I 39
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. Cl. per cent. ; 25 0 0 All paid. 1 39
Standard LifeAssurnce.r 51. per cent. l 50 0 0 1 2 10 0 i SN

• Qais jatn locus, inquit, Achate,
Qum regio in terris nostri non plena laboris I'
"Yes—who reads not Maga ? The flayed Radical
of Parliament—the rasped Balaamite of Congress—the
spanked Cockney of an author—the jaundiced editor of
some new no-go periodical—even these must cut the
leaves of each new number, if they die for it, or if their
only reward be to find their own sweet selves hung up
in its pages, like sham Socrates in his basket, but not
looking on like live Socrates with philosophic com-
posure. And if they whimper, who will sympathise ?
Like the Shepherd at Awmrose's, the testy public may
now and then rebel, and rail for a season at the cawm,
cauld, clear, glitterin' cruelty in the expression of his
een,'—but who can keep up a quarrel with North ?
Again, like the Shepherd, they relapse into a broad
good humour, and, before they know it, are drinking
with all the honours, Long live Bing Christopher I'
So then, in spite of Cockneys, Chartists, coxcombs,
rebels, radicals, and rascally reformers, yea, arid the
whole alphabetical list of what is Whiggish, vulgar, and
vexatious—

EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.
Summary of Results of this year's proceedings of the
East Surrey Free-Trade Qualification and Registra-

tion Society:—

BERMONDSEY.—CIaims made, 80; failed, 2; sustained,
78. Objections made, 104; withdrawn, 10; sustained,
but claims amended, 28; sustained, and claims ex-
punged, 66.
CAMBERWELL.—CIaims made, 50; failed, 4; sustained,
46. Objections made, 90; withdrawn, 4; failed, 1; sus-
tained, but claims amended, 41; sustained, and claims
expunged, 44.

CROYDON.—CIaims made, 94; failed, I ; sustained, 93.
Objections made,.B7; withdrawn, 11 ;jailed, 3; sustained,
but claims) amended, 26 ; sustained, and claims ex-
punged, 47.
KENNINGTOPL—CIaims made, 51; failed, 6; sustained,
45. Objections made, 109; withdrawn, 9; failed 1; sus-
tained, but claims amended, 20; sustained, and claims
expunged, 79. .

' Maga still sitteth on Edina's crags,
And fr'm her throne of beauty rules the world!"'
What a delightful piece of deserved and conscien-
tious egotism ! Even to us " Radicals and rascally
Reformers," the cry is some what contagious, " Long
live King Christopher !" The number, of which
this epistle from the western shores of the Atlantic is
a portion, opens with a very agreeable and genial
criticism upon the works and character of Hans
Christian Andersen—the most child-like genius of
the age. Although the critic observes that the writ-
ings
of Andersen are entirely without " traces of
the higher operations of the intellect, of deep or
subtle thought, of analytic power, or of ratiocina-
tion of any kind," the review is eulogistic, and its
commendations are as generously toned as they are
well merited. No autobiography certainly ever
tended so much to propitiate its readers, and to dis-
arm ridicule as that of the ill-educated son of a poor
shoemaker of Odense, in the little Danish island of
Funen. Hans Christian, it must be remembered, set
out from his native place to seek his fortune in Co-
penhagen, with thirteen rix dollars banco (thirty
shillings) in his pocket, and with only one dreamy
notion as to the manner of acquiring celebrity, namely
that " People suffer a great deal of adversity, and
then they become famous." Hans Christian Andersen
has become famous in spite of everything—he has
gone through a great deal of adversity and become
famous—and with such marvellous rapidity that,
although he was born in 1805, and commenced his
education in the bottom class among the little boys
when he had attained his eighteenth year, he has in his
time spent his evenings with the Royal Family of
Denmark, dined with the King of Prussia (who has
decorated him with the order of the Red Eagle), and
during his recent visit to England received an especial
invitation to Osborne House, and subsequently to the
Highland residence of her Majesty, from the illus-
trious Prince, the Consort of Queen Victoria. Ho-
nour to the Danish poet—the son of the poor shoe-
maker. Blackwood has discerned the true bent of
the genius' of Andersen in observing that his tales for
children will gain him "an immortality in the nursery
—not the worst immortality a man can win !" The
second article in old Ebony for October is a paper
entitled "The Vision of Cagliostro." We will not
analyse the construction of the paper, as we are soli-
citous that the majority should read it for themselves,
and we are so solicitous, because it is !calculated to
render the reader happier if he read it rightly. The
Vision might have been called a tale of the five senses
—for, under the symbol of a dream, it proclaims a
new and glorious truth, that earthly happiness is at-
tainable through the virtuous use of our five senses !
The vision itself is beheld by Count Cagliostro, the
Rosicrucian, and illustrates the morale of the story
in the persons of Tiberius, Agrippa, Milton, Mira-
beau, and Beethoven. As a specimen of the compo-
sition and [character of this contribution, we trans-
cribe thefragment of the Vision relating to Beethoven :
"When the reproachful accents ceased, Balsamo felt
his feet once more pressing the earth, and the breezes
rustling against his domino. Hew 0,1 wandering in the
garden of what is termed the SchA,arzpanier House,
situated on a slope or glacis in the outskirts of Wahring.
The evening was so far advanced, that candles already
twinkled from the upper windows of the building, while
the fires of the kitchens checkered the shrubs and gravel
with patches of glaring light. Through the flower-
beds, and along the intricate paths of the shrubbery,
the Alchemist strolled at a languid pace, musing upon
the things he had already witnessed, when his vigi-
lant ears caught lthe tones of a musical instrument.
Although it was scarcely audible from the distance,
Cagliostro was struck by the extreme beauty and
espieglerie of the performance. He hurried forward in
the direction from which the sounds proceeded, and at
each step they became more distinguishable and be-
witching. After a momentary feeling of indecision
when he reached the walls of the Schwarzpanier, the
Alchemist ascended a flight of steps, and passed through
the open casement of a French window into a modest
sitting-room. The musician whose skill had attracted
him was seated in the gray twilight at a piano.
Cagliostro scarcely noticed that he was a man of short
stature but of muscular proportions; he scarcely re-
marked, indeed, either the apartment or its occupant;
his whole consciousness was absorbed in the melody that
streamed from the instrument.
"At first, the fingers of the player seemed to frolic
over the keys, as though they toyed with the vibrations
laf the strings. The sounds were sportive and jocund ;
limy rippled like laughter; they were capricious as the
merriment of a coquette. Then they merged into a
sweet and warbling cadence—a cadence of inimitable
tenderness, the very suavity of which was rendered
more piquant by its lavish variations. The measure
changed, with an abrupt fling of the treble hand : it
gushed into' an air quaint and sprightly as the dance of
Yuck—comic—odd—sparkling on the ear like zig-zags :
It threw out a shower of notes; it was the voice of agility
and merriment; it was grotesque and fitful, droll in its
absurd confusion, and yet nimble in its amazing inge•
nltity. Gradually, however, the humorous movement re-
tsoi'vs4d itself into a strain of preternatural wildness—a
gtrae4 this ilailde the b 1924 =die, owl the flesh creep,

CIVIL AND MERCANIILE JOURNAL. No. I.
Edited by James Irving Scott.
This is the first number of a new monthly journal,
which is intended to be the organ of all employed in
the civil service of the State at home or abroad, and
in the great mercantile pursuits of this country,
whether in connexion with banking, wholesale or
retail houses, railways, or law. The idea is an ex-
cellent one, and if properly carried out, which from
the experience of Mr. Scott in conducting works of
this nature there is every reason to expect it will be,
success is certain, inasmuch as this journal will, in
such case, supply an acknowledged want.

KINGSTON.—CIaims made, 16; sustained, 16. Objec-
tions made, 68; withdrawn, 6; failed, 2; sustained, but
claims amended, 7; sustained, and claims expunged, 53.
REIGATE.—CIaims made, 26; failed, 1; sustained, 25.
Objections made, 66; withdrawn, 9; tailed, 3; sustained,
but claims amended, 23; sustained, and claims ex-
punged, 31.
WANDSWORTEL—CIaims made, 32; sustained, 32. Ob-
jections made, 96; withdrawn, 11; failed, 2; sustained,
but claims amended, 28; sustained, and claims ex-
punged, 55.
Total claims made, 349; failed, 14; sustained, 335.
Total objections made, 620; withdrawn, 60; failed,
12; sustained, but claims amended, 173; sustained, and
claims expunged, 375.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
KELSO RACES—THURSDAY.
The Kelso Club Cup of 100 sovs., added to a Sweep-
stakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old, &c. The
second to receive 25 sovs. out of the stakes. Once
round and a dis. Gentlemen riders.
Mr. Merry's Marian Ramsay, 5 yrs ... 1
Mr. Dawson's Magnet, 5 yrs ... 2
Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Roper's Daughter, aged ... 3
501. given by Sir H H. Campbell, for three yrs old, &c.
Once rcund and a dis.
Mr. Merry's John Harris, 5 yrs (11. Robertson) 1
'Air. Johnstone's Hornet, 3 yrs ... ... 2
The Kelso Plate of 501., for three yrs old, &c. Heats.
Once round—about a mile and a quarter.
Mr. Binnie's Titus Oates,4yrs (Holloway) 5 5 1 1
Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Roper's Daughter 3 1 5 3
Mr. Dawson's Maghet, 5 yrs ... 1 3 3 4
Mr. Meiklam's Susannah, 3 yrs ... ... 4 6 2 2
Mr. Dawson's Pleasure Trip, 4 yrs ... 2 4 4 dr
Mr. Merry's Badinage, 5 yrs ... 2 dr
LINCOLN RACES, FRIDAY.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Bell's Amasina, 3 yrs ... ... (Owner) 1 1
Mr. E. Peck's Sally Maggs, 3 yrs „, 2 2
Mr. Brooks's Luminous, 3 yrs ••• ••• 3 dr
The Blankney Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 10 added,
for two-year-old colts Sat 51b, and fillies Bst 21b, &c.;
half a mile.
Mr. Hawkes's Miss llarrison ••• (Ho'mes) 1
Mr. B. Eddison's b c by lletman Platoff, Bst 51b 2
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added. Once
round.
Mr. llayes's ch f by Hetman :Platoff, out of Ma-
cremma, 3 yrs ••• ••• (Gunton) 1
Mr. Wilder's Spem Gregis, 3 yrs „, 2
Mr. Whitworth 's Chapeau Rouge, 3 yrs •... 3
The All Aged Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 10 added.
One mile.
Mr. Brooks' Luminous, 3 yrs ••• (Simpson) 1
Mr. S. Hawks's Miss Harrison, 2 yrs 2
Mr. Wilder's Lucy Neal, 4 yrs „, 3
The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added. Heats,
2 miles.
Mr. Walters' Cavendish, aged (Mr. Scott) 1 1
Mr. Davy's Sister to Dapper, 4 years 2 2
Mr. Gibson's King of the Slacks, aged ... 3 3
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
CESAREWSTCH STAKES.-10 to 1 agst Rob Roy (t),
10 to 1 agst Reminiscence, (t), 15 to 1 agst Ulysses (t),
15 to 1 agst War Eagle, 20 to 1 agst Lady Wildair,
20 to 1 agst The Tartar, 20 to 1 agst Miss Whip filly,
20 to 1 agst Tuft-hunter, 20 to 1 agst Vanity, 25 to 1
agst Bingham, 25 to 1 agst Inheritress, and 25 to 1 agst
Lightning.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.-10 to 1 agst The Prior
of St. Margaret's (t) 15 to 1 agst Reminiscence (t),
18 to 1 agst Rob Roy (t), 25 to 1 agst Queen May (t).

BANK OF ENGLAND-
(From last night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 25th day of September, 1847.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes 155ued........ 22,190,875

Government debt • • 11.015,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984.900
Gold coin and bullion '1,185,845
SUver bullion ••• • • • l.OO-4,030

£22,190,875

I £ 22,190,875
M. MARSUALL, Chief Cashier.
T. 1847.

Dated the 30th day of September

BANKING D:
Propr;etors' capital.. 14,553,000
'test •.. •••• • • • • 4,043,012
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and Di-

,EPAILTMEN T.

Government securi-
ties (including pead
Weight Annuity') • • 11,036,340
Other securities • • • • 20,007,232
Notes . • • • • • • . . • • • 4,112,290
Gold and silver coin • • 591,828

vidend accounts).. 9,437,851
Other deposits •• •• •• 7,484,042
Seven day and other
bills •• •• •• •• •• 819,785

£36,347.690

£36,347,690
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
:r, 1847.

Dated the. 30th day of Septembe

The Earl of Ashburnham being in the constant
habit of receiving applications from parties desirous of
visiting the house and gardens at Ashburnham, and of
inspecting the royal relics of Ashburnham church, inti-
mates to the public generally, and particularly to par-
ties residing in the county of Sussex, that they are
henceforth at liberty to view the same on applying at the
lodge gate on the Nindfield road, between the hours of
ten and two o'clock, every Monday and Thursday.
Lord Ashburnham particularly requests of visitors that
they will confer no gratuities whatever on his servants.
Respectable parties are permitted to shoot as usual on
the outlying lands at Ashburnham, on sending their
cards in to the bailiff's house on the Nindfield road.—
Brighton Gazette.
The testimonial to D. W. Wire, Esq., from the
Reformers of Boston, will, we hear, be presented shortly.
It will he a piece of plate every way worthy of being,
presented and accepted.—Lincoln Times.
'dsto, &c.—Plymouth Journal.
We hear that it is the intention of the merchants,
import, direct from Hol-
tiraandde,rcsh,e&esez
:ZMittieLeLainNdEnostriers connected with the
AssociAmort FOR THE AID AND BENEFIT OF
10,fealluse:Honopiloariat
Yesterday evening a
DmeßeEtSinSgM Ao theß S
above aq.sociation was held at their office in Clifford-
street,tiinogn
loafs'
tg eyneearrall,2b ul7-
reollief afforded to 83, and
nt of 591. 15s. 6d. The
whom 467 were pro-
daily increasing, and
Bond street, for the transaction
youngspvmii
enceiceemusdnsb.iwea
personsir:
pecuniary
hfs
relief
tethurl i eeaept
ri report stated
weres .
provideth:e registered,lea Medical
—ncoad
much gOod had been ffected jrln reducing the hours of
s colonies,
andgo other parts of the con-
labour, and the general funds of the institution were fa-
vuurable ; but, with the extensive objects in view, re-
quire additional aid. During tahpepoeulaatrsetadsfeidnwretmhsse public
journal,
s, z
nt let. n bteors t
hfooefr
v3a.oruiadvertisements
persons
had
tinent, represented under the most favourable opportu-
nities, but the society discovered that these advertise-
ments had been used for the purpose of entrapping
young females, and by their active counteraction have
prevented the completion of such nefarious schemes ;
and saved many interesting females from destruction."
The society is under the patronage of her Majesty the

The King of the French has decided upon placing
the portrait of M. Coletti in the gallery of the celebrated
men of Europe in the museum at Versailles.

THE MERCANTILE CRISIS.—The Leeds Mercury
of this day says :—From the communication of oar
Manchester Correspondent, it appears that the failures
in London and elsewhere have produced a very serious
effect on credit in that city (for Manchester is now a
city), and the stoppage of several eminent houses, in
addition to those mentioned early in the week. Among
those specified are Messrs. Birley, Currie, and Co., East
India merchants and brokers ; Messrs. Edward Potter
and Co., twist merchants ; and Messrs. Wilson and
Ebor, general merchants. Further mischief is appre-
hended, and the panic is described by our correspondent
(who has had long experience of the Manchester trade)
as exceeding anything he has k nown for thirty years.
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—The ordinary
meeting of this society was held last evening at the
Society's Rooms, 20, Bedford-street, Strand, Dr. Ayres
in the chair. It was announced that several very valuable
parcels of plants had been received since the last meeting.
A notice was read of the discalsery of Zostera nano
new British plant). A specimen was presented.
BURSTING OF A BOILER AT TIVIDALE.—Two MEN
KILLED.—On Monday last an inquest was commenced
at the house of Mr. Timmins, the Boat Inn, Tividale,
before George Hinchcliffe, Esq.,, Coroner, and a respect-
able jury, on the bodies of two mechanics, named George
Carter and William Mow. It appears, that on the pre-
ceding day the deceased were at work on or near the
boiler, when it exploded, and they received such serious
injury as to cause death shortly afterwards.—Birming-
, hum Advertiser.

Queen Do-wager.
FOLKSTONE.—During the performance on Friday
evening, at Batty's circus, a portion of the boxes, upon
which about 200 persons were sitting, fell down with a
tremendous crash, precipitating the whole of them on
the grass beneath. The screams of women and children,
and the rushing of hundreds to the entrance, was ap-
palling. We are, however, happy to state that no inju-
ries were sustained beyond a few bruises. After order
had been somewhat restored, the performances con-
tinued. The cause of the accident was the unevenness
of the ground upon which the seats were erected.
REhIARICABLY QUICK TRAVELLING BY STEAM-
BOAT AND RAILWAY. A gentleman of Liverpool
crossed in the Brighton and Continental Steam Packet
Company's boat, Newhaven, from Havre to Brighton, on
Saturday last, and reached Liverpool within 24 hours of
his quitting Paris. It must be understood, too, that the
time occupied by railway from Paris to Ilavre, although
120 wiles only, was six hours and a half.

A St. Peteisburgh letter states that the amount in
value of the corn exported from Russia since the
last harvest is 32,891,622 rqublos, mailing about
132,000,0001.