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female named Franc

•ought up before Mr

fortunate woman would sufficiently recover to attend the

court for the purpose of giving evidence. 1..1
the magistrate that the woman still continue
gerous state, and he understood there was

.der the

itances he wishe

have the prisoner further remanded
remanded the man till to-morrow.
FAILURES IN LONDON.—Within the I
have had a many failures, the aggregate
liabilities is estimated at no less than £260,(
all respectable firms, connected with the produce
chiefly tea, and one has helped to pull down the other. The
serious depreciation in the value of most descriptions of pro-

Mande ultimately

Lst three days we

mut of whose
)00. They are

, amounting to 20s. per cwt. on sugar V...
and to about 30 per cent. on tea, are causes themsel
cient to account for these unfortunate reverses
at the same time remark, that the tea trade has be
in addition, to a v'

ain a few weeks,

but we must
frected,

ery serious extent by the extensir.
in many cases, wild speculations entered into ; for if houses
of old standing and acknowledged wealth do not themselves
share in it, their connexions often do, and thus involve them
in the common loss.—Shipping Gazette.

INDIAN BOATMEN.—Their continued severe labour be-
come a source of painful interest. Now drenched to the
skin in swattering through a shallow pool in which they
tracked up to the middle in water ; now plunging into 20
foot water to swim to the pinnace and push her off the bank
on which she had grounded ; anon threading in single file
the steep bank which crumbled under their feet, beating the
billows into yellow foam, and again coming on board for a
short space only to tug at the oar in their shallop ahead till a
favourable towing path again presented itself. And all this
toil, all this exposure, for a mere subsistence of the coarsest
rice, with now and then a little fish.—Society in India.

OUR FEMALE SERVANTS. -To every intelligent ob•
server of society, and especially to every truly benevolent
mind, it must be apparent, that while there is no class of the
working community more important than that of female ser-
vants, there is scarcely any whose condition and character
calls more loudly for consideration. When the position they
occupy, the connection which they have with our children,
and the influence they exert in a household, are soberly re-
garded, it will be evident that the claims of no class of per-
sons are more powerful and urgent on the sympathies and
the benevolent and Christian exertions of parents, masters,
and mistresses, and ministers of the Gospel. While, however,
the claims of our fellow servants are so obvious and pressing,
it is beyond a question that no order of society has been

hether this 1

from mistaken notions

most efficient means to be employed, or from a f

luctance to make any decided effort for the melioration of
their condition, we know not; but, from whatever cause it
may have proceeded, it is but too manifest that there
has been a want of specific, vigorous, and combined
exertion, calculated to bear immediately on their moral cha-
racter, and to prepare them for the important duties of their
station. Contributions have been raised—plans have been
concerted—noble undertakings have been achieved—import-
ant societies have been established, and the most extended
circle of operation has been described, to benefit and bless
one portion of the community after another; but female
servants have been almost forgotten; scarcely any public
prayer has been presented, or any benevolent and religious
exertions specifically and directly made for their welfare.
On the contrary, they have been to a great extent passed by
as strangers, and regarded as aliens and outcasts, even by the
professedly Christian community of the British empire. It
is high time, however, that there should be an alteration in
this respect—that more correct views should be formed with
regard to the position of female servants, and their influence
on society—that a different tone of sentiment and feeling
should be cherished respecting them; and that their moral
and religious claimsshould be more distinetively and urgently
enforced.—From a Pri:e Essay lately published.

THE REPORTFD DESTRUCTION OF THE FALLS OF Nl-
AGARA.—Although the account of the removal of the Falls

of Niagara is prononnced to be a hoax, their destruction was
predicted many years ago by Lyall, in his " Elements of Ge-
ography ; " and the causes, the progress, the occurrence,
and its consequences, are calmly and clearly laid down in
that ingenious work, as if the author had been a spectator of
similar events, and had been as much familiarised with them,
by the every day occurrences of life, as he was by his ordi-
nary studies in the exterior construction of our globe. He
there proves that the event is but the latest (perhaps not last)
of a series of disembankments, caused, in the lapse of ages,
by the weight and impetus of the Superior waters, which have
reduced the mighty inland fresh water seas of North Amerita
(from the Falls down to its mighty embrouchure in the ocean)
in the narrow but still stately limits of the river St. Lawrence ;

and he proceeds to assert that in the consequent progress of
drainage, caused by the removal of the great barrier at Nia-

gara, the regions now covered by the upper and lower lakes

will become solid fertile land, intersected by a river, their
sole remains, from such point, if there be any such, where
the elevation of the bottom to a certain height will present a
barrier to the waters lying beyond it ; 'until, in the process
of time, and by the operation of existing causes, that barrier
and barrier after barrier, shall have given way, and the now
watery waste of blue waters be succeeded by an immense and

magnificent valley of undualating hills and wide spread plains,
covered with green pastures, and inhabited by man and
beast.

FLlNT.—The'town of Flint—or Colsul, or Coleshill, as it
was anciently called—has all the appearance of a fallen and
deserted capital, presenting evidences of its former extent
and importance in long lines of half dilapidated edifices and
broken streets; and in its rapid decline it seems to have par-
taken of the fate of its once-towering and lordly fortress. Its
loss of influence was accelerated by the removal of the gene
ral sessions, and the competition cf powerful rivals :
though at the head of one of the ancient shires of
Wales, there seems little promise of its restoration to van-
ished greatness or civic prosperity. From the situation of
the place, it has every appearance of having owed its origin
to fierce and perilous times,—its entire structure presenting
the aspect of a warlike station to resist the repeated shocks
of a people newly subdued. Tue primitive foundation was
doubtless that of a Roman encampment, the site being rec-
tangular, and having a deep wide fosse, with huge ramparts,
besides fourgreat equilateral gates, which can be traced upon
the same military foundation. The town is situated upon the
banks of the navigable estuary of the r
Parkgate, in Cheshii
boats ply daily, forming a communication
Although the county jail is here. vvtir

Dee, n,

•e, between which place and Flint, terry

th Liverpool

yet the reeentrosperity of the neighbouring town of

has occasioned-theremOval of the assizes to that town

imposing ruins of the Castle are seen on the north-east of
the town, and stand in bold relief upon a rock jutting from
the south bank into the sands, which are washed by the sea
at spring tides. It is built in a square, with large round
towers at three of the corners, with a fourth a little disjointed
and still more massy. The last is known by the name of the
double tower and was connected with the main edifice by a
drawbridge. Beneath it is a circular gallery, with four arched
openings into a central area more than twenty-two feet in di-
ameter. In one part this gallery slopes towards the interior,
and, again ascending, communicates with an upper range still
more central, which formed the ancient donjon. To this
strong hold, we are informed by Froissart, the unfortunate
Richard 11. retreated, as a place of the greatest security ; and
here he was subsequently delivered into the hands of Boling-
broke, Duke of Lancaster,—an event which, it will be seen,
has afforded scope for the genius of an artist familiar with the
historical characteristics of " olden times."—From Hoscoe's
Wales, new edition, now publishing in monthly parts.

HAWARDEN.—The only objects of attention at this place,
are the mouldering walls of the antique castle, and the soli-
tary glens about the park. The ruins of the castle occupy
an elevated point not far from the town, and within the park
of Sir S. R. Glynne. Little more than fragments of the
former towers and keep remain ; indeed a considerable por-
tion of the ruin was itself obscured by heaps of rubbish, till
the late Sir John Glynne had them removed, and the foun-
dations laid open to view. It was constructed in a pen-
tagonal form ; on one side was a spacious gateway, and on
the other a kind of barbacan. At one angle was situated the
keep or citadel, a circular tower still nearly entire, and which
forms one of the most pictureque objects that strike the eye
on first approaching its ancient solitary reign.' Other por-
tions consist of the relics of the vast mouldering walls—of
massive donjons,—and, in one part, of a long flight of steps,
at the bottom of which is a door and drawbridge, crossing a
ravine to another division of the castle, embracing, most
probably, the prison, thus fearfully secured.
" The park is of considerable extent, pleasingly diversified
with hill and dale, wood, water,
and other accompaniments.
thewhole
backed by the high range of hills
to enhance the beauty of landscape scenery,
which divides
rooks—the stateli-
ness Flintshire.
from Denbighshire.
lhetrceamweinvgcorf tiduree and softness of the
ness of the trees—the ex
grass—the ivy-grown ruins—and the rippling of the stream
present a series of interesting objects to the eye, and excite
a correspondent succession of pleasurable sensations in the
heart of the traveller, as, he pursues his walk over these
grounds."—From Roscoe s Wales, new editiox, new pub-
lishing in Innxthly pnrls.

~JU~ C~ j.

COLONEL W. F. P. NAPIER, C.B

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From the Weekly Observer, St. John's, New Brunswick

Servant and Admirer,

tents of the Peninsular War,

THE AUTHOR,

pen of Captain O'HALLORAN,

in the course of a " Lecture upon
in the Hall of the Mechanics' In-
irk on the Isth February. 1841.