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FRIDAY EVENING, AUG' r 27. 1539.

N°. 13,563.

TIM NEW PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

(Continued from our Paper of Tuesday last, in which was inserted
a complete List of the Members for ENGLAND ant WALES.)
LIST OF MEMBERS RETURNED FOR IRELAND.

4%," Those printed in Italics were not in the last Parliament : those
marked (•) arc new for the respective places ; all the rest are re-elected.
Antrim County . Lord Belfast', Hon. J. B. O'Neil
Armagh County . Lord Acheson, C. Bromilow
Armagh Town . Right lion. H. Goulburn
Athlone R. Handcock
Bandon - - Lord Bernard
Belfast . . Sir A. Chichester
Carlow County . H. Bruen, T. KAvanagli
Carlow Town - . Lord Tullaniore
Carrickfergus - Lord G. A. Hill
Cashel . . 21f PenneJather
Cavan County . Hon. H. Maxwell, A. Saunderson
Clan County Major Macitantara, G. Mahon
Clonmell . 'E. Cook
Coleraine - - Sir J. W. Drydges
Cork County - Lord Boyle. Hon. R. King
Cork City . . Hon. J. Boyle; D. Callaghan
Donegal County - Lord Niountentirles, (fen. G. Hart.
Down County - - Lord Castlereagh, bord A. Hill
Downpatrick . - R. L. Ratheen.
Drogheda - - J. North
Dublin County - Lord Bralmson, Col. White
Dublin City - - G. Moore, F. Shaw.
Dublin University . Ser9eant Wray
Dundalk . Hon. J. H. Cradock
Dungannon - . Hon. J. Knox
Dungarvon - Hon. G. Lamb
Ennis - . TV. S. O'Brien
Enniskillen . - lion. A. Cole
Fermanagh County - Lord Corry, Mr. Archdall
Galway County J. S. Lambert, Sir J. Burke
Galway Town - J. O'Hara
Kerry County - Right Hon. M. Fitzgerald, Hon. TV. Browne
Kildare County - Lord W. G. Fitzgerald. M. O'Farrell
Kilkenny County - Earl of Ossory, Lord Dungannon
Kilkenny City - N. P. Leader
King's County - Lord Oxmantown. Cul. T. Bernard
Kinsale . - Captain J. Russell
Leitrim County - Col. Clements, S. White
Limerick County - Col. Fitzgibbon, Col. O'Grids
Limerick City . T. S. Rice
Lisburne - - Capt. H. Meynell
Londonderry County. Sir IL Rateson, Capt. T. Jones
Londonderry City . Sir R. A. Ferguson
Longford County . Lord Forbes, A. Lefroy
Louth County . A. Dawson, J. 141..11`Clinlock
Mallow . C. D. Jcphson
Mayo County . . J. Browne, D. Browne
Meath County . Sir M. Somerville, Lord Killeen.
Monaghan County - Hon. C. Blaney, E. J. Shirley
Newry - - H. J. H. Knox
Portarlington - J. Farquhar.
Queen's County - Sir H. Parnell, Sir C'. Come.
Roscommon County - Omen ()Tomtit, A. French.
Ross - - - C. Leslie.
Sligo County . E. Cooper, Hon. 11. King.
Sligo Town . . J. Wynne.
Tipperary County . Hon. F. H. Prittie, T. Wyse.
Tralee - R. V. Smythe.
Tyrone County - lion. H. Cony, Sir H. Stewart.
Waterford County - Lord G. Beresford, D. O'Connell.'
Waterford City - Sir J. Newport.
Westmeath County . Col. G. Rochfort, M. L. Chapman.
Wexford County . Lord k alentia, Col. Chichester.
Wexford Town . W. Wigram.
Wicklow County . Col. Howard, J. Grattan.
Youghall . . Hon. G. Poneonby.
•,• The Scotch returns are not yet complete.

VALLEY OF NORTH CRAY-RESIDENCE OF THE

LATE LORD LONDONDERRY, iC.

North Cray, situated in Kent, and distant about thirteen miles from
London, is one of the most charming residences in the world. The val.
Icy from which it takes its name, comprises four parishes, so surpassingly
rich in the gifts of nature, and eke the capabilities which art requires,
that they may be compared to fairy.land itself. For miles the country
seems one continued garden ; villas, lawns, orchards, farms, are grouped
with a prodigality that is truly astonishing ; the woods resound with the
song of the Nightingale; nay, even the wood-cock, no emigrant here,
evinces his consciousness of the superiority of the district, by remaining
quietly in it the whole year. The course of the Cray, from its inconsi-
derable source, to the point called Cray-ford, where it enters the
Thames, is one of the merriest that stream ever ran ; disdaining to wim-
ple as the crow flies, it seems ambitious of watering every nook of its na.
tive vale ; and during the months of summer, flows most serenely
amidst banks alternately level and precipitous—here clothed with
copse, and there disclosing a succession of unineumbered streams and
pools which lure the angler to his sylvan sport. From the nature of
the soil, a sandy clay covering a warm chalk formation, the water
is remarkably clear and limpid ; and yet to the skilful in the pis.
calm art, a finer trouting stream is hardly to be met with. At
every little interval the tourist stumbles on some romantic mill,
grinding into pulp the cast linen of a " nation of gentlemen ;" and per.
ceives, with equal surprise mad pleasure, the purity which the waters at
his feet impart to a commodity which is consumed in incredible quanti.
ties, in keeping up the intercourse of commercial and social life, and
upon which, while taking his ease at his inn, he can trace for the
benefit of some fair friend, however distant may be her home, the
Impressions inspired by this truly happy valley. Here every species
of timber expands and thickens with a degree of rapidity unknown in
our more northern clime ; fruits, too, are cultivated or grow sponta-
neously, such as the rasp, the filbert, the cherry, pear, apple, not in
plots, but in sections comprising many acres ; and though no vineyard
gracesthe sunny slopes around, a beautiful and profitable substitute is
found in the trim and lengthening precincts of the hop-garden. We
have already spoken of the villas, lawns, and gardens, so characteristic
of the advanced civilization of England ; and to these must be added a
countless series of white-wasbed cottages, each looking out from its sur-
rounding orchard, trelised with woodbine and other creeping plants, and
pranked on all sides with plots of flowers, which tell on the prosperity
of the neighbouring apiary, and enable the owner to increase the com-
forts of a winter night, by bartering the product of his bee-husbandry,
for at least a sample of the luxuries of London.
To persona fond of architectural ornament, the residence of the late
Lord Castlereagh presents nothing remarkable. But like most of the
houses of the gentry of England, it Is admirably planned, and exhibits
everything that belongs to neatness, comfort, convenience, and rural de-
coration. No expense was spared on the lawn which stretches to the
wooded banks of the Cray ; walks, dry and sheltered at all seasons, in-
tersect the grounds in almost every direction, and the whole are bounded,
or rather bordered, with beautiful flowering shrubs, ornamental flowers,
and every sort of evergreen. The gardens, with their appendages—con-
servatories, vineries, pineries, &c. are extensive, varied, and admirably
managed. But, alas ! alas! amidst all the symbols and elements of
enjoyment—possessed of rank, riches, fame; of the power of wielding
(India included,) the energies of a hundred millions of people—of in.
fluencing the destinies of other nations, it was here Lord Londonderry,
in a rash moment, lifted his hand against his own life, and rushed, un-
bidden, into the presence of his MAKER.
On the numerous sights, as they are called, at North Cray, by far the
most interesting are the poultry-yard and menagerie. The apartments
allotted to the domestic fowls are at once spacious and welLarratged,
and display throughout the utmost solidiude for the health of the in.

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mates, The turkies have one apartment ; :he (pure white, and I
of thethmiling breed.) a second ; the ducks andgeeee s third, and so on.
Square compartments in the elite walls are provided for the birds to lay
and batch In ; the floors of these and the more open specs were swept
daily. and nearly as often, the one set were strewed with sand, and the
other littered with gond dry straw: Under a system of management so'
careful and uncommon, such quantities of fowls were annually reared,
that Lord Londonderry, had he chosen, might have engrossed the cus-
tom, of a London poulterer. The person entrusted with the charge of
the estahlisliment, and who had even deputies employed under him, with
a live poulterer himself on an imposing scale, and seemed as deeply
versed in the mysteries of his art as his master was in the intrigues of
courts and cabinets. The great points he studied were cleanliness,
warmth, and ventilation. Strange as it may sound, he had learnt from
experience, that wet feet is a most frequent cause of mortality, particu-
larly among the young of the feathered tribes. Hence his anxiety to
used against every species of damp, and hews the practice of covering
the doors with bruised cinders, at certain seasons. Besides the roosting
and hatching apartments, the poultry had access to a spacious airing.
yard, covered at some spots with bushes and ever-greens ; and here it
was amusing to see the whole collected, obeying their instincts, whether
in the way of business or pleasure, from the strutting turkey-cock or
hissing gander, to the timid Dowling pullet, as white as the swan, and
every whit as fair.
Leaving the poultry house, or rather street, strangers were led to the
menagerie adjoining. Here there was much to interest the naturalist,
and if the inmates of both could have been safely intermingled, North
tray, in the variety of its birds, beasts, reptiles, &e. would have been a
close rerembLence of Noah's ark. But the accommodations were far
more ample ; anti fond as we are of the family of nature, it was melan.
choly to contrast the attentions lavished on the monsters of the forest,
with the truly neglected state of those whom crime. misfortune, or des-
, fluidal, immure within the loathsome jails of Scotland. The lion and
the tiger. with keepers to anticipate their every want, seetned gclaglowen
as compared with the race of unfortunates just named; and if their dens
had been taken as a model for the prisoner's cell, and speaking gene-
rally. the pleasant ways of philanthropy preferred to the thorny part of
ambition, who can doubt that the owner's life would have been more
tranquil, his latter moments more calut, and his memory disassociated
from touch that is hateful to an English ear
For a private collection, Lord Londonderry's menagerie was at one
period very extensive. The high official situation he tilled afforded hint
many facilities for extending his knowledge, from personal observation,
of nearly the whole animal creation ; from every quarter of the world,
biped and quadruped varieties were forwarded to the noble owner of
North Cray; and it seems not improbable, that the high personages
who busied themselves in procuring these gifts, (lid so on the principle
of propitiating favour, that they might the more securely indulge cer-
tain instincts, too closely allied to those of the wild animals they ex-
ported. Among the curiosities of the menagerie, must strangers were
particularly struck with a brace of ostriches and a brace art Emus. The
two former had been located at North Cray for twelve years, and the fe-
male emu for a similar apace. The hen ostrich laid annually from ten
to twelve huge eggs, every one of which, with a oust of bread and a
cup of water would have dined an Arab to his heart's content. Still she
shoved no inclination to hatch them—a cue very common with
foreign birds, and for which, so long as they remain in health, zoologists
are rather at a loss to account. The emu, a native of Africa and New
Zealand, stands fully five feet high, and has habits akin to those of the
ostrich. But they appear to be much more prolific. At North Cray,
the female doubled the ostrich's number of eggs, though like her cousin
of the desert, she uniformly refused to hatch the same. And here we
have a singular fact to record. The cock emu, whatever he may do
abroad, petformed in Britain the task of incubation; brooded over the
eggs for eight weeks,and afterwards tended the callow young with the most
unremitting and endearing fondness. Six years ago, he gave a striking
proof of parental solicitude. The keeper at this time had less expe-
rience than he afterwards acquired in the rearing of these gigantic birds:
and when he observed the only parent that took an interest in their wel-
fare gathering them under his long legs, it became a question whether
his nursing would be for good or evil. To obviate, therefore, all chance
of danger, he seized the cock on one occasion, and hut him up in a se-
parate apartment. In the morning, when he went to release his pri.
soner, he found him stretched, stiff and cold; and the man's impression
was, and is, that the poor bird had died of a broken heart ! Subse-
quently, he succeeded much better, and reared no fewer than eight emus
in one season. The collection we speak of is now broken up, and its
inmates distributed among the menageries of the Tower and the Zoolo-
gical Society. Previously, Lady Londonderry had gifted, privately,
some of the rarest and most interesting specimens.
In addition to the pursuits of natural history, Lord Londonderry was
fond of rural occupations ; rented an extensive tract of land, became a
farmer on a large scale, cultivated, successfully, all sorts of crops, and
reared annually flocks of sheep and herds of kine. In occupations such
as these he felt a pleasing respite from the cares of life, the pressure of
business, and the thousand and one annoyances of leading politicians.
As often as he could, he retired to North Cray, and perhaps, on finding
his Merinos so much more manageable than human beings, muttered as
he sauntered pensively along—

" Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound ! "
Still, even here, he was beset with visitors—entrapped in the thorny
maze of politics. Rarely could he call a single day his own ;at dinner
he was liable to interruption; "even Sunday shone no Sabbath day
to him ; " and, while his mtanest dependents were enjoying tranquil
and unbroken slumbers, his Lordship was frequently roused at midnight
to attend, however jaded and fatigued, to affairs big with the fate of ens-
piree. Mr. Canning, while rusticating with Colonel Bolton at the
lakes, laboured, it is said, from eight to ten hours out of the four-
and-twenty ; and we suspect matters were much the same with his pre-
decessor in the foreign office. A messenger arrived at midnight, the
bearer of despatches that brooked no delay ; these despatches required
to be read, considered, answered ; and often before all this could be
done, the vigourous hind was abroad in the fields, unconscious of the
tax which greatness must pay, and perhaps envying, as he looked up to
his tower, the fortunes of one who, at the very moment, was repaying
the compliment, and endeavouring, for the sake of his exhausted frame,
to shut out, with " curtain drawn and casement closed," the most glo-
rious sounds and sights in nature.
But we must close this article by stating, that whatever Lord Lon.
donderry may have been in public, he was a kind and good man in pri-
vats life. To his domestics he was uniformly condescending and indul.
gent ; to his visitors punctiliously affable and hospitable, even when he
guessed at their selfish purposes, and was anxions, above all things, for
solitude and repose. When parade and state could be thrown aside, no
man was more simple and engaging in his manners : and it is farther
due to his memory to say, that in common with his lady, he was ex.
ceedingly charitable, and that both are sadly missed by the poor of
North Cray.