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At the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street, London,
there is exhibited one pound of glass, spun by steam into a
thread 4000 miles long, and woven with silk into beautiful
dresses and tapestry.
On Saturday week a serious accidenthappened in the family
of the Hon. and Rev. T. Erskine, the vicar of Beighton.
Two of Mr. Erskine's daughters, who were amusing them-
selves by igniting paper with a burning-glass, asked their bro-
ther, Mr. Thomas Erskine, to give them some gunpowder
for a squib. Not observing any spark he poured some from
his flask upon the paper, and the whole instantly exploded.
Some fragments from the flask struck the young gentleman ;
cut the palm of one hand across, and inflicted a deep and se-
nwoeill. s woundgn on his thigh ; but we are glad to say he is doing
eofstiliigehtyloyu._ngstffidiel friwas.s.considerably scorched,
and the other
EXISTER.—A rather laughable incident occurred on Mon-
day afternoon, on Van Amburg h's caravans arriving at the
theatre. Some hundreds of persons were assembled to see
which
was
effecter tdemporary quarters
the beasts transferred to their
sufficiently large for one of the: " behind
the scenes,"
:male, close to the caravan,
by placing a box or cage,
and then withdrawing a spring
Tamer" orders a lion, or a tiger,otr, upon which the "Brute
policemen were sent by
Twoo go into it, and the ani-
mals are carried in separately,
the mayor to keep off the mob ; and
was engaged in arranging the transfer, a lion
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across
gently
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of his head through the hole in the top of thee of box, and helter
skelter went thero crowd in
uthinsaollerny
directions;ha and o
the other
men was quickly do
the circus—men tumbling over boys, and women
find chil-
dren screaming most luatilY ; whilst the noble king of the
forest
" Look'd most proudly on the vulgar crewz
Whom :testes goYern, and whoa ban MAUL"
.-•Weolnier's Eater Rosetta.

" Want you a man
Experienced in the world and its affairs ?
Here he is for your purpose."
Poor England ! The time is not far distant when thou
west the proudest and the mightiest of nations ; but alas
how much art thou fallen. A few short years only have
passed away since thy fame extended to the remotest corners
of the earth—since thy armies conquered on the land and thy
navies swept the seas—since thy statesmen were men of the
sincerest patriotism, the most splendid ability, the most va-
lued experience, men who lived for thy glory alone, whose
every thought was of thy welfare and thy renown, and whose
exertions made thee the mistress of the world. But now
thou art a fallen and a falling nation. True it is that thou
mightest raise an army equal to that of which Wellington
was the head, and send to sea a fleet not inferior to that
which Nelson commanded : bOt there can be little hope for
thee so long as thy mighty destinies are controlled by such
men as those that now occupy thy cabinet. To them it is
owing that thou hest " fallen, fallen, fallen—fallen from
thine high estate ;" and so long as thou art cursed with them
so long wilt thou be a falling nation. Day after day fresh
indignities will be heaped upon thee, day after day will the
assaults of thy enemies become bolder and bolder, and daily
and hourly wilt thou be less able to resist them, until at
length thou wilt be completely crushed, and thy name will
be blotted out from the nations of the earth, or will exist only
as an empty moment° of thy former greatness. Alas ! then,
poor England : one's heart may well ache for thee.
But whilst mourning the present melancholy state of our
beloved country, let us not fail to give vent to our indignation
against those men by whom she has been placed in the woful
condition in which she now stands. Tremendous is the
responsibility which the Melbourne cabinet has incurred ;
for to its wicked policy is to be ascribed the lamentable posi-
tion of the country at this moment, and the many fearful
dangers with which she is surrounded; from neither of which
does there seem to be any chance of escape. Overwhelm-
ingly great, however, as the responsibility of the ministers
undoubtedly is, it must be borne in mind that they are not
the only accountable parties. No ; let it not be forgotten
that it was one branch of the legislature, and one branch
only, (the House of Commons) that appointed Lord Mel-
bourne and his colleagues to office. The House of Commons
not only persisted in driving those men into office, in spite of
their notorious incompetency, and in direct opposition to the
will of the monarch and in known hostility to the House of
Lords, but persisted in keeping them in place, notwith-
standing the oft declared opinion of the country that they
onght to be kicked out with ignominy. In so doing the
House of Commons failed to discharge its bounden duty
to the country ; and therefore any responsibility which
the present ministers may incur for their gross misma-
nagement of public affairs must be sharedoby the lower
branch of the legislature. Yes, the day of reckoning is fast
drawing near, when the Melbourne Cabinet will have to ren-
der an account of its stewardship, and alas for England !
what a fearful account that will be. The day, too, is not
distant on which the House of Commons must give a like
account—nay, that account will be ten times more serious,
more weighty, more difficult to render. Such is the consti-
tution of our country that, in fact and in truth, though not
perhaps nominally, the House of Commons appoints the
ministers of the crown. What then can the house say in its
defence for forcing into office such men as Lord Melbourne
and his set of any and every-thingarians? What can it say
to the country for keeping them in place, even after they had
acknowledged their inability to keep it—their unfitness to
occupy it ? The house cannot say that it was because better
men were not to be found. Look at Peel, and Stanley, and

Graham, and Lyndhurst ; look at Wellington : look at the
nobleman whose name we have placed at the head of this
article : look, for look you may, at scores of others almost as
good as tfa,ly. Yet none of those men have any share in the
government of this great and mighty kingdom ! Every one
of those men is possessed of the highest character, the sin-
cerest patriotism, the most distinguished ability ; every one
is deeply solicitous for the honour and glory and the best
welfare of England ; and every one, each in his own depart-
ment, is peculiarly qualified to add to her well being, to pre-
serve her name unsullied and her honour untarnished. But
in accordance with the bidding of a faction united only for
wrong, a gay and a lascivious Melbourne usurps the place
that belongs of wright to a wise and cautious Peel ; a Rus-
sell sits in the seat that belongs to a Stanley ; a Normanby
pushes a Graham from his stool ; whilst an old, broken
down, worn out, battered dandy—a bedaubed, rouged, be-
decked, and brainless block, one Palmerston, or (as Lady
Bulwer appropriately christens him in her clever novel,
" Chieveley,") " Lord Protocol"—whilst this man reigns
triumphant at the Foreign Office, Lord Aberdeen, a noble-
man of the highest intellect and the purest worth, is left un-
employed in the service of his country. Oh ! will not the
vengeance of the people of this kingdom fall heavily on the
faction through whom such a state of things has been brought
about! Yes, yes, it will, it will, for we cannot believe that
the great, the noble minded British people will see " their
own, their native land" falling to ruin and decay through
the machinations of a set of ruthless adventurers. Like a
giant refreshed with wine we shall see our countrymen arise
and demand " justice for England"—the instant and ignomi-
nious dismissal of the Melbourne cabinet, and perchance the
punishment of some of its most ruthless members; and the
dissolution of the present HouSe of Commons. When this
shall have come to pass, the star of Britain will once more be
in the ascendant, but until then we must mourn for her as a
fallen and a falling nation.
_ _

No nobleman or gentleman can expect that his estate will
be improved, his rents increased, and his tenants made con-
tented and happy if he singles out as his agent a man ignorant
of the management of land, dishonest, and proud, and over-
bearing to those with whom he comes in contact. No trades-
man can expect his business to prosper if those to whom he
deputes the control of it are untrustworthy and ignorant, idle
and dissolute. Nor can any empire expect to prosper, to in-
crease in wealth and territory, in civilisation and learning,
if the men at the head of her government are deficient of
every statesmanlike qualification, reckless of everything ex-
cept their own personal aggrandisement, caring not whether
their country be ruined so that they keep in possession of
place and pay. Accordingly we find that when men are
choosing their servants they invariably select the best they
can find. But why, we ask, does not the House of Com-
mons, when choosing a certain set of men for Ministers of
the Crown, act on the same principle? This is a question
which must be answered sooner or later. Let the House of
Commons look to it.

Had the men best qualified to' navigate the vessel of state
been chosen, we should have seen the Earl of Aberdeen filling
a place of no mean authority. And truly La would l.ayc w.ll
17 &adapt &a ocicblatcd phrase of Burke's to our
present purpose, we may say that my Lord Aberdeen " was
nursed and dandled into statesmanship." He was placed,
we believe, at an early period of life under the care of one of
the greatest statesmen of Europe, Prince Aletternich, and
was by him carefully instructed in the difficult art of govern-
ment. Nor has he failed to do honour to his distinguished
preceptor, as his official career in this country sufficiently
proves. Lord Aberdeen is a man of a very high order of
talent, carefully disciplined • he possesses great experience
and business-like habits. He is in short as fine a specimen
of an English statesman as any man living. He seems to
carry his object with a straightforward honesty of purpose,
without trick, ..without chicanery, without display. To the
the redoubtable " Lord Protocol" he is a direct contrast
in every point, great as well as small. The one is an
egregious dandy, the other is remarkably simple in his dress;
the one lounges through the routine business of his office
and votes it " a bore," the other discharges it with alacrity,
and considers it a pleasure ; the one blusters and splut-
ters where he can do so with safety, and cringes and
fawns where he dare not brag, the other acts in every case in
the upright, honest manner in which every man controlling
any department of the British government ought to act ; the
one is duped and cheated by those more cunning than himself,
whilst the other is always careful and cautious, and cannot
therefore be deceived ; the one grossly and wantonly insults a
nation which ought to be one of our closest allies, and thereby
plunges his country into war, the other does as lie would be
done unto, and preserves to his country the manifold blessings
of peace ; the one allows the English flag to be disgraced with
impunity, the other insists upon immediate redress for every
wrong ; the one makes the very name of England a by-word,
a scorn, and a reproach, in every country, whilst the other
makes it feared and respected in the uttermost ends of the
world. The one in short is a mere pretender to statesmanship
and a professor of patriotism, the other is a great statesman
and an unflinching patriot ; the one seeks office for the benefit
of himself, the other for the advantage of his country. Such
is Lord Palmerston ;—such is Lord Aberdeen. Need we ask
you, reader, which of these two men ought to be in Downing-
street—which of them ought to be at the head of the Foreign
Office? We need not pause for a reply, for there can be no
doubt of the answer you will give. When, then, we see the
battered " Protocol" basking in the sweets of office, and the
Earl of Aberdeen placed in a position where comparatively
he can be of little assistance to his country, are we not justi-
fied in lamenting the probable fate of England, and of de-
scribing her as " a falling nation ?" Are we not right in de-
nouncing the House of Commons for allowing such a state of
things to exist?

But we must draw to a close. As we have already inti-
mated, Lord Aberdeen dresses with great simplicity ; he is
tall and somewhat stoutly built, and is of a staid and sober
appearance. He has, to use the quaint words of an •old
writer, " a comely countenance, replenished with gravity."
As a speaker, he is always listened to with great attention ;
he delivers his sentiments with ease and fluency, and is a
good and practised debater. He is very quick in discovering
omissions, mistakes, and inconsistencies in the speechef
his opponents. He does not stop to dress his opinions in the
gaudy tinsel of rhetoric, but puts them before his auditors in
a plain, becoming garb; but there is nothing slovenly in his
addresses. He does not much gesticulate when speaking, but
generally stands with his hat before him in one hand and the
other hand folded over it.

And now we pray in sincerity of heart that the seals of the
Foreign department may be confided once again to the Earl
of Aberdeen, for in better hands than his they could not
possibly be placed. A. T. T. Y.

A city correspondent informs us that insurances to a con-
siderable amount were effected yesterday at Lloyd's on French
vessels now on their passage home from India. The poli-
cies included the risk of capture, and the premium of in-
surance was higher than has been given on the same voyage
for several years. Morning Post.
We extremely regret that the Venerable Archdeacon
Thorpe had a severe fall from his horse the other day, which
greatly hurt one of his legs. The rev. gentleman, however,
is recovering from the effects of this accident.—Cambridge
Advertiser.

A Hague correspondent mentions a rumour of a marriage
being on the lapis between the Duke of Nassau and the
Princess Sophia of Holland, daughter of the Prince of
Orange. The Duke is at present on a visit at the Hague.-
-Galignani's Messenger.
NRW MUSKET FOR TILE BRITISII ARMY.—About four
weeks ago the Master General of the Ordnance, Sir Hussey
Vivian, issued instructions that two muskets, on an entirely
new principle, which had been submitted to him by a London
manufacturer, should have a fair trial. The muskets were
accordingly forwarded to Woolwich and placed in the charge
of an intelligent corporal, with orders that 1000 rounds of
ball-cartidges should be fired from each, for the purpose of
testing their capabilities and ascertaining their good or bad
qualities. The corporal selected two experienced gunne.rs,
and the men have attended every day at the butt in the Royal
Arsenal to practise with them. Upwards of 800 rounds
have been fired from each of the muskets, and the ease, ra-
pidity, and precision with which they can be used has
afforded the greater satisfaction, and even surprise, on ac-
count of the simplicity of their construction. The barrel of
this musket is of the same length and thickness as those
used by the soldiers of the line at present, the only differ-
ence is, that the touchhole, instead of being placed at the
side, is under the stock, immediately in front of the trigger,
which is secured from the possibility of discharging the mus-
ket by accident, even under the most careless circumstances.
Instead of flints percussion caps are used, and the force
necessary to ignite them is effected by a steel spring, about
seven inches in length, and so simple that it can scarcely
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As we were walking one day in the bazaars a singular in-
cident occurred. We were just issuing from a shop under
the arched way leading to one of the khans, when a young
Greek, who had been observing us for a few minutes, stepped
forward and stood in our path. His appearance and action
showed that he wished to attract our notice, and John im-
mediately asked what lie wanted. He replied by demanding
the payment of a sum due to him from John, my attendant,
saying that the latter had long escaped his notice by having
assumed the new costume of the Sultan in place of the Ar-
menian dress which he formerly wore. John was, at first,
somewhat disturbed by the charge, but promptly denied the
debt, and demanded how much the Greek supposed it to be.
" Ten piastres," was the reply. Upon this there followed a
loud war of words. John asseverated his innocence; and
the Greek persisted in the charge. He followed us as we
pursued our way, now and then plucking the Armenian by
the coat, and vociferating his accusation in the hearing of
the multitude who thronged the bazaar. The latter at last
lost all patience, and began to show an intention of proving
his innocence with his fists. Unwilling to see him involved
in a fray that might lead to consequences prejudicial to my
own interests as well as to himself, I took him aside, and re-
monstrated against his denying the debt, if he had really in-
curred it, offering myself, in that case, to discharge it. He
persisted, however, in his denial, and declared that he had
never so much as seen his accuser before. As I had already
had strong proofs of his integrity, I began to suspect that the
whole charge might be a fabrication, and advised him, if he
could do no better, to carry the matter before the proper au-
thorities. Immediately he turned to the Greek, and called
upon him to follow. •
We proceeded together to the Eski Serai, (Old Palace,) the
quarters of the Serasker Pasha, passi.d between the sentinels
stationed at the gate, crossed the spacious court, and entered
a small room. The parties advanced and stood in the mid-
dle of the apartment, while I remained at the door to watch
the progress of the trial. A middle-aged Effendi was seated
ol,posite. The Greek, with a low Kelm, opened his corn-
piaint, but great was my astonishment when I heard him
charge John with a debt of seven times the amount that he
had alleged in the bazar. The Effendi turned to the Arme-
nian and asked him it he acknowledged the debt. Upon his
replying in the negative the judge told them that they must
go to the mehkemek, or Kadi's Court, and immediately or-
dered a servant to attend them. So good an opportunity of
seeing the interior of a Turkish court of justice could not
be suffered to pass unimproved. I determined, therefore,
to follow. _ _ _

We reached at length a low, red, wooden building, in style
and appearance like a Turkish house. The servant conduct-
ed us up a flight of stairs into the presence of an inferior offi-
cer, who has the first cognizance of such cases. The same
process was repeated here as at the palace, excepting that
the officer ordered a scribe to make a record of the case. We
were then conducted to the door of another apartment, be-
fore which hung a heavy curtain of coarse cloth. The ser-
vant raised the curtain and told us to enter. Thinking that
my evidence might be of service to prove the contradiction
in the words of the Greek, I entered and remained in the
middle of the floor with the parties. The room was a small
one, and without any other furniture than an ordinary Turk-
ish sofa opposite the door. In one corner of this sofa sat a
short and stout personage somewhat inclining to corpulency.
At the moment of our entrance he was munching a head of
lettuce. We were in the presence of the Kadi, the ordinary
distributor of justice in Turkish cities, but one educated in
the medresseh, and learned in the law. The same questions
as before were asked and antwered. Both parties seemed in
great awe of the superior presence in which they now stood,
and spoke with greater moderation than before.
When the Kadi observed the contradiction in their words,
lie ordered a servant who stood near the door with his hands
folded before him, to bring a book that lay upon a small
shelf in the corner of the apartment. Upon this, an old and
well-worn volume was put in the hands of the accuser, who,
holding it before him, pronounced, in Turkish, these words ;
"By God, this man owes me money." John immediately
took the hook and said, " By God, I do not owe him money."
The judge then demanded of the accuser, " Where are your
witnesses ? " The Greek replied that he had friends who
would bear testimony to the debt, but wished for some time
that he might find them. " Then," said the Kadi, "go
away and return to-morrow," and calling the attendant,
he required him to see that the defendant found security for
his appearance. The plaintiff and defendant made a low
obeisance, of which the Kadi took no notice. I knew, from
the position which I occupied, standing in the middle of
the floor, that my own respects would be received with no
higher deference, and! thereforespared them. Before I had
turned my back the Kadi was engaged withhis lettuce again.
John was able to secure the assent of his brother, a re-
spectable jeweller of the city, to stand responsible for his
re-appearance on the morrow, and we were permitted to
proceed upon our business. The kavass, or servant who
acted as constable in the case, had offered to settle the affair
for a competent present ; but I advised John, if he were
truly innocent, to maintain it before the Kadi, and he was a
man of too much spirit to do otherwise.
Those who have an insight into life at Constantinople know
ornething of the incessant intrigues and lesser rogueries
which the love of money and of power, and sometimes baser
passions, are pursuing among the myriads of its population.
A foreigner may spend his life in the city without becoming
conversant with them. It is one, however, among the best
known of the secrets of the capital, that there are among the
Mussulmans themselves professional false-witnesses, whose
places of resort are known, and who are always to be found
ready to be used as evidences to any thing that their em-
ployer may direct them to say. The fact is familiar to every
Mussulman in the city, and is no where better known than
in the mehkemehs, where these professional characters are
recognised by their frequent appearance. The profession,
however, is an easy one in a country where, in civil cases,
justice is administered in the most summary manner—where
there are no lawyers to cross-examine, and but slight penal
safeguards against perjury.
John imagined that the services of some of these characters
might be put into requisition in the present instance, and as
the Greek had left the mehkemeh to go in search of his wit-
nesses, we thought it best to look into some of the haunts of
men of this sort. The result was, that in passing a range of
cati% notorious as the harbouring places of such characters,
we found the Greek in earnest conversation with a Mussul-
man. We did not disturb the conference farther than to
make the former aware of our presence. The confusion
which the sight of us created strengthened my conviction thatthe whole was a piece of imposition. The issue of the busi-
ness served only to confirm it. The next day the father of
the Greek sent for John, made ample apology for his son's
mistake, and 'proposed to Settle the matter by each one's
making a small pr aent to the kavass. The Kadi, probably,
amidst the multiplicity of such cases daily presented before
him, never again thought of the trifling question between the
Armenian and the Greek.—Southgate's Travels in Turkey
and Persia.

The cruel attack which Mr. Grantley Berkeley, M.P.'
made on Mr. Fraser, the London publisher, (which was fol-
lowed by a duel with Dr. Maginn,) in consequence of a re-
view of the tale " Berkeley Castle," which Mr. Berkeley
considered to be an unwarrantable attack on his family's fair
fame, must be in the remembrance of every one. This pro-
ceeding of the hon. member has been resented by the classes
to which Dr. Maginn and Mr. Fraser belong ; and scarcely
a notice of his last novel, " Sandron Hall," has appeared
is any publication in town or country, whether review, maga-
zine, newspaper, or literary journal ! This may be called
barking Mr. Berkeley s aspirations to authorship.

A Manchester correspondent thus facetiously alludes to a
fair weather report circulated in that town on Monday last :
" It was rumoured about the town that the sun was seen
yesterday about ten o clock, but up to the present moment all
attempts to discover the person who was blessed with the
sight have proved ineffectual. It was traced to a draper, but
he had gained the information from a factory lad, a pale faced
son of the soil, who on being questioned, vowed it was a mis-
take, he only having heard of, .not seen, the glorious orb of
day. Several little boys played truant on the strength of the
report, but as a matter of course, were chastised, there being
no excuse for their rashness."—Hereford Times.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We have just been given
to understand that the opening of the line to Bath is de-
finitively fixed for Monday, the 31st of August. Several ex-
perimental trips have been made during the last few days, in
all cases attended with a successful result. On Thursday
one of the engines went at a speed of 60 miles an hour, or a
mile per minute. On Tuesday the Meridian and tender did
the distance from Saltford, through Keynsham, to the en-
trance of No. 3 tunnel, nearly four miles, in the incredibly
short period of three minutes. On Friday a powerful loco-
motive drew the enormous weight of 24 waggons, loaded with
gravel, for the ballasting of the line. The skew-bridge at
Bath will be completed in a very few days, and the elegant
station at that place will also be ready by the end of next
week. All doubts are now removed as to the time for open-
ing, as this part of the works was that which caused the prin-
cipal delay. The progress of the works at the Bristol ter-
minus is very satisfactory, and progresses as rapidly as pos-
sible.—Bristol Standard.

IMPROVED HANDICAPPING.-A correspondent of the
Post suggests that the Goodwood Stakes should be divided
into two classes—the division being left entirely under the
control of the handicappers, who might then literally class
the horses. Is it not, he continues, absurd to see a four-
year-old give horses of his year three stone, and after the
race discover that six stone might have been given? Look
at the Hetman and Forlorn Hope, the Hetman and Pluto ;
look at Fitzambo, Wings, Auburn, and such like. No weight
at all could make a race between them and race-horses ; at
the same time put these forty or fifty wretches in a class by
themselves, and it would be as fine a sight as Laneroost, Het-
man, Charles the Twelfth, and Beggarman for the Goodwood
Cup. There would be upwards of thirty acceptances to each
class, perhaps forty, and quite as large a field as on the late
occasion, and the stakes would be still worth £7OO or £BOO
each—enough in. all conscience. I would adopt the same
regulation at Warwick, and everywhere else, when there
might be 100 subscribers.

ONE STORY GOOD TILL ANOTHER IS TOLD.—A gentle-
man of considerable magnifyinc, powers was relating in com-
pany how a military friend ofp his, having his left cheek
sliced off by a sable-cut at the battle of Waterloo, had
coolly picked up, replaced, and bandaged with his handker-
chief the stray segment, which after a few days was recon-
ciled to its parent face ; that is to say the cheek was cured
by inosculation, as it is termed. After this " good thing"
had passed current, with the addition, of course, of a few
obvious comments from the wags of the company, as to the
rigid cheek having been for the moment the left one, &c.,
an old gentleman quickly took the lead, and observed that a
far more remarkable occurrence had happened to a friend
of his, a cavalry officer, at the same battle, and who, failing
to parry a cut aimed at his face, had his nose clean shaven
off. " Thereupon," continued the elderly narrator, "my
friend stooped and repossessed himself of the deficient fea-
ture, which he clapped on his face, bound it with his hand-
kerchief, and then went pugnaciously on, as if nothing had
happened. In the sequel, be found the nose firmly united
to his "face—with this irregularity, however, that it was re-
versed or turned upside down, owing to the haste with which
he had put it on again. This circumstance did not much
disturb him, for being a great snuff-taker, he was thus en-
abled to apply: the powder to his nostrils without the usual
waste—butone consequence of the change he would some-
times complain of, as rather inconvenient, namely, that
whenever he wanted to blow his nose, he was obliged to
stand on his head."

INFAMOUS IMPUTATION UPON TIIE JEWS.-A Vienna
correspondent of the Debats gives the subjoined account of
an infamous imputation upon the Jews, similar to the affair
at Damascus, which has been lately made at Lemberg, in
Austrian Galicia :—" A' young woman, who had lived as
nurserymaid in the family of a wealthy Jew named Lumber-
ger, at Tarnon, went to Lemberg, and made a declaration
before the magistrates that she had been kept by her master
in close confinement for three weeks, during which time she
was bled every other day by a Jewish surgeon, and her blood
used in making unleavened bread. A police-officer was sent
to arrest M. Lumberger, but, knowing the excellent charac-
ter of the accused, he took the precaution of securing also
the denouncer. When the accusation came to be investi-
gated, it was proved that the girl having one day, while out
on her master's service, received a wound in the head with a
stone, which fell upon her from a house which was building,
her master and mistress, instead of sending her to an hospital,
had her taken care of in their house, treating her as if she
had been their own child, calling in a catholic physician,
who bled her twice, hut no more, as absolutely necessary to
save her life. The servants of the family swore that when
she left her place she went down on her knees to. M. and
Madame Lumberger to thank them. The ungrateful girl on
being closely interrogated confessed the falsehood of her de.
nunciation, and declared that she had been overcome by the
persuasions of her lover, who had an implacable hatred
against all Jews."

Matilda,
July, in lat. 18 N, 'long. 33
Elvira, Simpson, sailed from St. Helena for Liverpool 23rd June
Franklin, -, hence to New Orleans, was spoken 23rd July,
in lat. 28, long. 38
Alligator, Cook, hence at Dardanelles
Phantom, Saunders, from Odessa, at Constantinople, and sailed
27th July for Liverpool
Trinacria, Lagana, sailed from Messina for Palermo and Liver-
pool 27th July
Emily, Woods, hence at Harlingen
Magula Despatch, Cailingto, hence at Texel
Sjoumenta, Schotten, hence at Brielle
Tantivy, Wilson; Agenoria, Evans, and Arethusa, Wave, hence
at Helvoet
Eugene. Perre, hence at Antwerp
Sally, Hurr, hence to Quebec, was spoken 30th ult. in lat. 80,
long. 22
Reis Effendi, hence at Monte Video
Auckland, Richardson, from Cadiz at ditto
Petrel, Turcan, from Cape Verde at ditto
Mary, Brakeham, from Lisbon at ditto