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education, general employment, high- wage:

)1e supplies of the necessaries of life, the Learned

who presided, had to comment, in his
charge to the Grand Jury, on the fearful preva-
lence of crime. It ought to convince the many,
who stickle for what is falsely called Religious
Liberty, that no education can be beneficial which
is not strictly and essentially Christian instruction.
Secular knowledge is but a delusion and a snare,
and its results the mere change in the nature of
crimes from those prompted by poverty to others
which originate in intemperance and vice.

The trial at Cnoliceater in which_ an iraPostor,
until he underwent the ordeal or a searebiug, cross-
examination, presented a plausible claim to a
baronetcy, and an estate of nearly £30,000 a year,

was one of those singular romances of real life
which go to prove that " truth is strange, stranger

than fiction

Not the least extraordinary circum-
stance, as it proved the final hair which broke the
camel's back, was the receipt of a telegraphic
despatch, in the midst of the examination, which
presented the most damning proof of turpitude on
the part of the claimant, and at once put an end to
the trial, which resulted in the committal of the
plaintiff for forgery and perjury. The case, in some
of its features, bears a strong resemblance to that
of the claimant to the Earldom of Cranford and
Lindsay, so graphically described in Blackwood's

lfagazirte sometime ;ince.
The report of the Medical Officer, presented at
the meeting of the Health Committee, shows the
sanitary condition of Liverpool to be in a very
satisfactory state, the rate of mortality having con-
siderably diminished from previous years. This is
the more gratifying, as the increase of population,
Bing to the great increase of the commerce of the
port, would naturally have had a contrary tendency,
unless the means for preserving the public health
had been efficiently carried out.

The clause in the Ministerial India Bill, for
putting an end to the East India Company's Salt
Monopoly, has, as we predicted was possible, been
struck out in the House of Lords. There was a
time when we looked to the Upper House as the
surest safeguard for the privileges of Englishmen,
when assailed by a factious majority in the Lower
Chamber ; but their Lordships, during this session,
have done little to maintain their former character.
They seem to have been content to register the
doings of the Commons at the bidding of the
Ministers ; and as in the case we have referred to,
to undo what little good may have been wrung
from an unwilling party.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

FRlllClL—leSterday, being the fete-day of Napoleon,
was to be celebrated in Paris by the usual processions,
Muminations, Scc. Tne keel or a new screw line-of-battle-
ship, of 120 guns, to be called the Arcole, is about to be
laid at the dockyard at Cherbourg. The fitting out of
the Austerlitz, 100 guns, is going on with great activity.
M. Drouyn de Lhuys is raised to the dignity of Grand
Cross of the Legion of Honour for the eminent services he
has rendered in his direction of diplomatic affairs.
Extensive decorative improvements have taken place
among the public buildings of Paris. The façade of the
Palace of the Institute, on the side next the Louvre, the
front of the beautiful Church of the Val de Grace, and
that of the Invalides have been entirely restored.

The French Emperor and the Empress have recently
taken to shooting, at St. Cloud. On Wednesday their
Majesties went out in a boat on the 6tangs of St. Cyr for
the purpose of duck shooting. The Empress was provided
with a light and elegant fowling-piece, with which she did
such execution as showed her to be an accomplished sports-
man. She shot four wild ducks, and each bird which fell
was not only received with hurrahs by the courtiers, but
afforded the Emperor an opportunity of expressing his
atisfaction hi a more tender manner. The historian of
their Majesties' exploits declares that " l'Empereur em-
rusa rlmperatrice tendrement."
batirimour was current in Paris, on Friday, of the pro-
extenitY of a further reduction in the French army to the
rise 1..4 of from 35,000 to 40,000 men. This had caused a
1 lal Government securities.
eri TAIr.--The province of Bologna is so overrun with
via:, pat many families, not feeling safe at their country
forty repaired to the city. At Faenza, upwards of
mina:polls had been arrested, in consequence of the
the gnufarempts lately made on the lives of the governor,
The poiriere, and the police inspector of that place.
received lice authorities authorities of Pavia, in Lombardy, having
slimed, mid e information of a startling kind, it is pre-
expectation 4 visit by night to the town-hall, with the
Gaimherti, king a great discovery: The commissary,
followers to pe..,ofinding any thing criminal, caused his
Carlo theFollierti:late the walls, but without success. M.
account o the Mayor of Pavia, despatched a detailed
governor' of NritZeedings of the police authorities to the
lence committed a:. T-ul demands satisfaction for the vio-
RUSSlA.—Letter% the town-hall.
the Russian Govern Tiflis, of July 15, state that
be
is preparing a new expedition
against Caucasus, to
"A fleet is 4.llldertaken at the end of this
month.
the land operations. Since in the sea of Azof to support
has been great inettil:iie quarrel with Turkey there
A letter from agitationPetesbure Russo-Caucasian provinces.
the Ist orders were given to
suspend
of the sth, states that on
he'pro • all movements of the
Ittissian troops in't vinces of the Danube, and on the
4th an order was sent to the General-in-Chief to put an
end to all demonstrations having a character of mina,
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