The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

the loss and inconvenience which are likely to be

tubers, have

perienced from the di,:eaed state of th
made their firet rerort, which contains only one
_sug.f.lles7

and free fr,im contact and pri,siur

The tenders for ermines for the Illowing stem-vessels
have been accepted from the under-mentioned con-
tractors :—For the Vulcan steam-frigate, at Blackmail,

700 horse-po we

£36,000

for the Niger steam-sloop, 400 horse-poWer, building at
Woolwich, £21,460; the Dauntless; steam-encore, 500
horse-power, et Portsmouth, £31,320; by Napier, of
Glasgow ; the Termagant, steam-frigate, building at
Deptford, 620 horse-power, by Seaward and Cap -1, for
£21,400 ; the Simeon, steam-frigate, I)64:ling at Glas-
gow, by Napier, by the same firma for £29,000.
On Sunday week, the barns, stables. outbuildings, with
the hay, straw, train, and implements of husbandry on
the farm of Mr. Furher, at Sbipbrooke, near Northwich,
were destroyed by fire. It is supposed that the fire ori-
ginated in the barn, where the three children of Mr.
Furber, in amusing themgelves, set fire to the straw, and
such was the intensity of the heat when the fire was first
discovered, that thouzh the children could be distinctly

h .ard crying'within, it was impossible to reach them, and
they all perished. Mrs. Farber, the mother of the chil-
dren, has been very delicate for some time, and it is
feared the loss of her children in so melancholy a man-
ner will speedily brine about her own death.
ANDOVER UNION.—The unfortunate woman,

BRUTAL OUTRAGE.—A few days since, as Mr. W.
Gold was proceeding along the high road near Batleigh
Wotten, not far from London, he was suddenly attacked
by three ruffians, who, after dragging him from his horse,
tied together his legs, and nearly suffocated him with mud
and filth, which they forcibly stuffed into his mouth, in,
order to prevent him calling for help. They then pro-
ceeded to rifle his pocke:s, and succeeded in getting off
with a check for £32; five £5 notes; a silver hunting
watch, maker William Tyas, No. 9,685; a pair of silver
•pectacles, two knives, and a silver pencilcase. The un-
fortunate gentleman was subsequently found in an almost
exhausted state by some rustics.

POOR-RATES.--At the Buckingham petty sessions on
Saturday last, before the Re's. A. Baynes and W. T.
Eyre, T. Chapman, a tidily clad aericultural labourer, was
summoned for two poor-rates, amounting to 3s. Bd.
Chapman said he was not able to pay it : he bad to pay
Is. 6d. per week for the cottage, to buy firing, and keep
himself, his wife, and two children, out of his wgges,
which were 9s per week, which was less than 3d. each
per day to live on. Mr. Webb, the overseer, said
labourers with four or five children were made to pay,
and therefore be thought Chapman should. The man
said he had been ill for a time. The magistrates told
him they could not help him, and that he must pay the
3s. 8,1., with the clerk's fee, 35., and the constable's fee,
Is., in 14 days.
MORECAMBE BAY HARBOUR COMPANY.—In con-
sequence of the recent nautical survey of the west coast
of England, made by the direction of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty, having proved the existence
of the most important natural facilities in the Bay of
Morecambe, for the construction of a harbour of refuge,
capable of affording shelter to vessels of the largest
burthen navigating the west coast, at ali hours of the
tide, and under all circumstances of weather,—the
intention has been announced of forming a joint stock
company, to be called the " Morecambe Bay Harbour
Company," with a capital of £300,000, in 15,000 shares
of £2O each, for undertaking the construction of such a
harbour in connexion with a tidal basin and ship canal
into the river Lune at Lancaster, affording access to the
town and quays of Lancaster, and to the railways there,
to merchant ships of the largest tonnage. The project is
brought before the public under the sanction of the
different railway companies interested in theimprovement
of the port of Lancaster, as well as the commissioners
of the port.

HORNCASTLE FAIR, LINCOLNSHIRE.—.This large
ftir was sell attended last week. Blood stock of good
pedigree went off quickly at prices varying from 120 gui-
neas to £2OO ; thorough-bred brood mares, stinted to
good horse 4, made from 6) to 83 guineas; yearlings from
30 to 80 guineas; hunters of reputation made prices
ranging from 100 gainers to 200 and 250 guineas each ;
aged hunters, fit for hravy country and hounds. 40 to 80
guineas; mares, (ire furl,) from £3O to £5O. There was

an admirable show of five year old carriage horses, which
were bought up rapidly, and destined for London ; the
prices obtained were from 40 guineas to 60 guineas ; and
several pairs of well-matched horses made as high as 160
guineas ; uobroke horses sold at 30 and 40 guineas ; and
colts from £25 to £35; prime young cart-horses made
from 16 to 21 guineas. The sheep-pens did not extend
wide, but business was transacted at good prius ; Lin-

coins (good wethers) making 4s. Bd. per stone ; and ewes
(early lambing) from 325. to 38s. per head ; and good
lambs made 1 guinea.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On the 21st ult.,
three young men, named Lindsay, Bell, and MeLaren,
went out on a fishing excursion near Glasgow' and were
so bent on the sport. that they did not think of returning
until the shades of night were fast closing on the heath,
when they bent their steps homeward as fast as possible.
The night was cold and gusty ; the water so long dab-
bled in, not far from the freezing point • and after leaving
the burn for the road, the three youths had proceeded
a short distance, when poor MiLaren became so ex-
Rusted from fatigue, that his limbs actually tottered

under him. Thus disabled from proceeding a step
far.her, it was agreed he should remain by the way-side,
with Lindsay to watch over his safety, while Bell under-
took the duty of finding his way to the nearest house
to tell what had-happened, and crave assistance. He did
so accordingly, but, through the darkness of the night,
lost his way, and wandered so far and wide, that it was
near six o'clock the following morning before he reached
his home, when the alarm was given, and search
instantly made for his companions, who were found
stretched on
,the damp grass near to each other, both
alive, but unable to speak, and incapable of motion.
M`Laren expired before he could be conveyed to a cottage,
Lindsay was put to a warm bed, and .is likely to recover.
WRECK OF A STEAMER.—thI the 22d instant., the
Margaret, screw steamer, plying between Hull and Ham-
burgh, was wrecked, during a severe gale, on a dangerous
sand called the Memenerst, near Jewist, at the eastern
entrance of the river Memrn. Three of the crew and ix -
teen passengers, consisting principally of Jewish emi-
grants, perished. The moment she took the shoal, the
sea, which was running terriely high, swept several per-
sons overboard. The long-boat was launched, and at-
tempts were made to reach the shore, but, owing to its
crowded state and the violent surf, it capsiz. 41, and every
soul in it met with a watery grave. Those who remained
on board the;Ntssel, after being exposed to the most severe
privation fitteduMber of hours, were saved. The stea-
mer became a complete wreck, but as the tide receded,
considerable quantities of her cargo ',ere got out of her
hold. The Margaret was the property of Mr. Pim, of
Hull, by whom she was built some years ago. She was
about 250 tons burden, rigged as a three-masted schoo-
ner, and was worked by a screw propeller, being the first
vessel of the description that has .been engaged in the
passenger traffic from that part. Within a few miles of
the spot where the Margaret was lost, a ship foundered
about the same time, anti every soul belonging to her was
drowned. Another vessel, belonging. to St. Peteraburg,
named the Mehala, was lost on the previous day, on the
same sands, and the captain and four of his crew perished.
In addition to these disasters, the Hamburg Mail an-
npunees the loss of no fewer than nine vessels on the
Dutch coast during the storm.

ROMANCE or REAL LIFE.—A young American plan-
ter, named Da Costa, of immense fortune, recently came
over to this country in search of a wife, and after visiting
some of the most fastConable cities, an.i " spending his
money like a prince," without meeting the object of his
search, he paid a visit to Birmingham, and was stand-
ing one day at the door of the Hen and Chickens, when,
as old wives would say, (and circumstances in this case

proved the truth of the saying.) the very person he came
to England to look for walked across New-street, nearly
opposite where he stood. Struck by her appearance, he
followed the lady, and with much politeness expressed a
wish for a better acquaintance, and a desire to see her
home. The young lady, a bliss Rimmer, of AlceVer,
was at that time on a visit to Mr. Heeley's, Bristol-road,
to whose house the straneer accompanied her, but his
pArtner in life not quite liking such a romantic visitor,
referred him to her parents. The traveller Waq not to be
diverted from an object in search of whom he had travelled
so far, and the little town of Alcester was shortly after

well nigh frightened from its propriety by a carriage and
four driving up full speed to the house of Mr. Itimmer.
After many wonderings among the inhabitants who it
could be, it turned out that it was Mr. Da Costa, come to

request of the parents permission to pay his addresses to

con,
bat
pove

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th.
ABDUCTION.--A case which has excited considerable of their comrade. To one skilled in the langusil
be the
interest was heard before the magistrates on Wednesday. human countenance, it was evident that nothincou_oo,„
m
Robert Macknight, late sub-inspector of police at restraint of discipline held them back fro a
nk theta
Longton, but subsequently transferred to the mining act of vengeance and of crime that would have 116 of ths
district, was placed before the bench, charged with a mis- to a level with the pirates themselves. Judging.obablY
demeanour in having removed a young lady, of less than feelings of his crew from their looks, or more
tattoo m
16 years of age, from the custody and against the wish of from his own, and anxious to remove the temp
be stow
her widowed mother, her legal guardian. Having evil, the captain ordered our eiebt prisoners to
obtained three days' leave of absence from his post, under the hatches, and they were accordinglY
Macknight took the opportunity of bringing a gig to with very little ceremony. How many of this of
no
means
anould
Longton nn Saturday morning. He contrived to corn- genuine desperadoes bad been lost, we had
municate with the young lady during day, and persuaded ascertaining; for our prisoners either did not or
fi
her to elope with him in the evening. The parties were not understand English or French. But when they
pursued, and brought back. Here perhaps the matter upon us, from twelve to sixteen men were visiblen,
ealuver
might have ended had not Macknight followed them to the yell that followed our discharge was such as
iShe ISfit
Longton. This conduct decided the young lady's friends extorted from mortal man but by the Pang, °f t wolf
to prosecute him for misdemeanour, and he has been agony. ixS or eight, then, of the freebooters bad cer
committed for trial.—Staffordshire Mercury. perished. What chance of success they might lancysetu_s;
CURE OF THE POTATOE DISEASE.—At a meeting last an open boat ceuld have against a vessel of the 61
_nit
week, Dr. Buckland, professor of geology at Oxford, after ours, it completely bewildered us to imagine. Tbelm
of a
stating his belief that the disease in the potatoe was either have been intoxicated, or in the situati°n impel
" gangrene," produced by the wet summer, went on to beast of prey, whom the goadings of hunger will r
say, that he had recently eaten at the table of Lord Ash- to rush upon a foe from whose face he would otbeo,wr;
burton potatoes which had been diseased, and they were have fled. Viewing it in either light, it was an act
so eaten at the table of his lordship for the purpose of most daring hardihood. The struggle had been fierce.
showing to the domestics that when properly attended to boisterous, but it had passed. The ship was restore:l;e
there was no danger. If the potatoes infected were first her usual tranquillity, and was moving before a gr..A6
of Pll steelier; I,r twelve hour.; in cold water, the water breeze from the shore, yet so slowly as scarcely to
then changed, and they were then peeled and steeped for the face of the ocean. tumbbanledd
of
another twelve hours before being boiled, (which they
ought to be in two new waters,) they would be found to
be perfectly wholesome and nutritious. When steeped or
macerated as described, they were perfectly inocuous to
man or beast. The putrid potatoes, which of course
could not be used for food, ought to be made into starch.
He wished it, however, to be understood, that there was
little nourishment in potatoes, in comparison with wheat,
barley, oats, the seeds of peas, beans, &c. These con-
tained the elements of muscular fibre and bone, gluten,
and many other elements of animal bodies. lie did not
eider the disease amongst potatoes anew disease; he
eyed it had existed at all times, and was the result of
erty and ill-matured development. With reference to
.ad potatoes laid up for stock, he would say, let them
be well dried ; let them be packed on shelves in garrets
ll
ltottvbi
ehheart
phreerbifeseninedenietebp4eyl aredtnreoott
tnedha
precautions,
rumteejilsmtvouiethsendt
ecnisghntlh,
mithemeevietenfirhnnswreeatt hsohir,dpeaui—u:si •
roedenebgst bbdcerai
until
rebetsyaws
wellsreri
oetefunsdat
trtet
hihideoeed.
situations,
Tinss
atdehrnaeapdsywl
disease—the
ertn adu- quick-
lime;
piger withknoo
abroad
(hcmee d
polna mustgut
hei interfere tbeeear :est ritie7bmeedat
stayed, and
aetnehn,ei
inhabitants thereof learn righteousness.

kturaturr

POETRY.

JAQUES IN CA ['EL-COURT.
( From Punch.)
All the word are stags
Yea, all the men and women merely jobbers !
They have their brokers and their share-accounts,
And one man in his time tries many lines,
The end being total ruin. First, the greenhorn,

Dabbling and dealing in a lucky spec. ;
And then the prosperous seller, with his piofits
And joyous winning face, buying like mad,
Unwilling to sell out; and then, the loser,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful prospect
Of the next settling day ! Then the director,
Full of strange schemes, and lodged at the West-end,
Keeping a cab, and sudden growing rich,—
Getting a bubble reputation
Even in Capel.court. And then the bankrupt,
With his debts' schedule large, and no assets :
By all his cent friends entirely cut.—
Full of bad scrip, and fertile of fresh schemes ;
And so he plays his game. The sixth step sinks
Into th- low and herring-gutted stag,
With spectacles on nose and list in hand;
His youthful gains all spent, the world too wide-
Awalc e to be ta'en in, and his long line
Of hapless creditors that idly wait
And whistle for their cash. Last scene of all,

That ends this sad but common history,
Is—Union pauperism, and oakum pie inge
Sans beer, cans beef, sans tea, sans everything

SELECPIONS

TIIE PIRATE'S ATTACK.
(From Hogg's Weekly Instructor.)

' There they are !'.

exclaimed the captain, whose eye

. _
had taken the direction of mine ; " the rascals have rowed
clear round us, and are coming on from St. Domingo side.
Stand to your arms, boys ! the rogues are upon us."
In an instant every man was at his post, and on the al,-rt.
" Stand in the shadow of the spars and rigging to be out
of sight," continued the captain, " and not a man of
you fire till I give the word."
" Ay, ay, sir," responded the crew, with nautical preci-
sion.

"And now," said the captain, who really, went to work
in a business-like style," let us get this gun on the other
tack, Mr. Brae, to be ready for the gentlemen."
The muzzle of the piece was accordingly thrust through
the opposite port, keeping a dead aim on the boat, which
was now little more than a quarter of a mile distant from
us.

" Strange," said I, "that the felws should choose to

—The
ecepsrsoltTeYs
toaentUgNetnotNryANolfONlGreSiTanidßlwsuillP;troeTaeA
tis;err,sai!
they think Mr O'Connell's parliamentary menace be
affiair of trivial. moment—let him have the retinue
calls for, in the next session—let him set in action the
means at his disposal for enlarging his numbers, sh°l4t
there be, for any cause, an early dissolution, and i! will
be difficult to assign limits to his successes. The',4 hie
be probably commensurate with his demands—an" be,
demands, however: daring and exorbitant they may u.
og,
can hardly dare more than Sir Hobert Peel has
raged. Before twelve years, if the connexion wich‘Elike
land endure so long under a system of
the present, the Protestant gentry of Ireland maY def
have twenty members in the senate—and if thaioa,
arrive, and public affairs, from any cause, become Peri pf
or embarrassing, the anti-Anglican party may be not 011.4.
suffered, but entreated, to set up a parliament art,t 'ad
own in College-green—nay, may be bribed to dep a
may go forth as the Jews went from the land of boosPl
spoiling the Egyptians in their departure. All these an
ts
their attendant evils are in prospect, if the Protestan
Ireland will not address themselves to the solemn God
Gai•
which the emergency imposes upon them, and which.. to
in his mercy and his bounty, yet leaves them ea"; ne
government,
lot
discharge. I know well that there are some who ue-1
this latter truth, and who affirm that the Protestants 01
Ireland are too weak to maintain themselves, and tt
union will only have the effect of exposjng them to ace
saultand injury. There i, no fear of such a comeeuell,.,
—anion will not make the exposure of Protestants
perilous than it. is. Poor and rich, they arc kn0t..,.,
—union will not increase the certainty that they are Pin
testants. Will it increase their dangers or their dislm;
forts ? The well-known history of Protestant operatic
Societies has already answered the question. Were u
in
ther answers necessary, the history of every ince
not
n°
Ireland could abundantly supply them. Union Will A 0
increase the danger of Protestant gentlemen ; indiscrelis
may, but disunion will not serve as a preventive.--Dtib

row against the moon, when, by £ o doing, they must know

we should see the glitter of the

oars."

University Magazine.
THE ORIGIN OF ENGRAVING —The origin of in
!rIZ
graving on copper is ascribed by Vasari to IVlassa
guerra, a celebrated niellatore of the fifteenth centorYi
but before telling you how he arrived at this inventi"a',,e
will describe the art from which it arose. Nielto, or Oa
inlaying of metals, was employed in very early times. 16
seems to be the very same as the marquiterie of t
French, and the Eastern lavoro da inaschino, which„
a .
have before mentioned. The process by which the belt.
ail works we have lately see, were executed were "s
follows :—The subject beim., cut out with a chisel in
plate of silver, the interstices were filled with a mixture
of silver and lead, called from its dark colour nigellun
whence the Italian word niello, was derived. The contrast
of this dark substance with the shining whiteness of t 5,
ground produced the effect of a beautiful relivo. It waj
chiefly used for tables, cabinets, the savers of missals, acw,
sometimes for the hilts of swords. Massa Finiguerra vi,a;
in the habit of taking a impression of his works
prove them, before he filled the cavities with niello : ihts
he effected by pressing the frame thus prepared for toe
reception on soft earth; a reverse copy was of eouri.
given, as the par's before sunk now stood out in reliek:
he then covered it with Hyoid sulphur and lampblacfs
and another impression was taken. He also took Pr°o.
of his works by colouring them over with a similar Pr'.
paration, and then placing moistened paper on this, Pass•
ing a smooth round roller over it, which gave to the int:
pressions, Vasari says, " not only the appearance of Via',
stamped, but made them look as if designed with the Pen,: t
Ltssstuephsitnitutltieedarfot
Only two or three of Finigturra's proofs remain, bps
many still exist of that period. The transition from this
Coo
pper the n
roftheen
which led to the discovery, and the attention of artistsd
was now turned to the new effect to be produced ;
an
greater accuracy anclaielicacy were introduced into the
gmraovreingwas an e tsv
expensive material

execution of the frallirsintenijed solely for engravings*--
Mims Taylor's Lettetlfrom Poly.
THE COMING_ fiELIGIISUS STRUGGLE IN GERMANIr.'
—The event of our times may F_con be, we dare not sar
is, the Roman Schism in G:rininv. The struggle of !bed

" I suspect," replied the c.,ptain, "that they bad no
choice about it. You forget ti at we have more or less,
wind off the land since sunset, and are at least six miles

from where we were then. The probability is that the old and still powerful papal superstition with the "flu
rogues lost us after nightfall ; hut it seems they have forces that oppose it, is, beyond all doubt, the cpestion or
found us at last."
The boat was now very near us, still not a sound came
from her. The closest and most painful attention could more the prime agentg of re-commencing it. Agiing?!..b.iht
which i e sti o
beanns over
the the h
se t
rwhole
u ge civil
three x
hundreded worh r;
a e y ar,s-tcla
re Go . e
sai oarink:
not hear the dip of her oars, which rinse and fell like a tle of refieibus controvetsrts sbuii Riig throughthe ea
piece of mechanism, glittering in the moonlight like blades How mysterious-how inexplicable most such contest' as
of eilver.
" Boat, ahoy !" cried the voice of Captain Boltrop, in
the
its most startling tones. No answer was returned to this impOssib e would they be, were he no more than Oleo
tbhuetstehseeepmeritsohatbhlee manniechwahnoismrecoefgntiimzees
ainndhsueren! nsutur,ret
summons, and the oars were plied more lively. " Keep hut no—man is above all things the "religious animal
off ! you rascals," again shouted our commander,—" off! he has been designated. Nothing can evince it more TU.
or blow you out of the water !''
This threat and the firebrand which I flourished with The
great fierceness seemed to make the pirates hesitate. infidel Hume has acknowledged the fact in one remarlrear,
historyeiblythathni
sthoeneatroouiLi arousing es ffieveeareeyxwelhuiscihvetilyi rpoousgshessheids.
Toe motion of the boat was arrested. Captain Bottrop ble passage, which moulded as a contemptuous
thought the victory already achieved, and he span raised admits a mighty truth. No consideration stirs the dgenprtbSe
hop.
his voice in tones of au!liolity—" Throw your arms over- of man's soul like the prospects of eternit. Be his
board, and come alongside."
A volley of musketry was the reply to this summons— truth, "the shadow or
pa reality,
ow ers of hteh
eit w ao
rnmto emptyeom
edream,,,sr e ot rh e sossvo,el Itt
a dozen bullets whistled by, and the captaintstiat fiewacroes that alone thoroughly master the inmost recesses of nil,'
the deck. A deep imprecation burst from his lips. The spirit. Every secret region of his heart still sends 113.4
next instant a broad stream of flame issued from the its mysterious echoes to that key-note. The man of the.
quarterdeck, and the explosion of the piece broke upon world smiles at that religious ardour of the crnsadt'r or„e
the dead stillness of the elements with a noise like thun- the wild Munster Anahiptist, which controlled no
der. A distant crash, a heavy splashing in the water, savage passion : he may find a theme for deeper reflection
above which a cry of mortal agony was terribly distinct, in the strange potency of that remote and dim-seen 0
had arisen in the direction of the foe before the smoke
ject, which, even when by turns eclipsed by every We:.5,.
dispersed sufficiently to enable us to see the effect of our sire passion, or mighty only to madden not govern th.,Pr
shot. No boat was then to be seen, nor any trace of her does still in either case retain so wondrous a suorertchey
crew ; we had in all probability sent every soul into over the main current of the thoughts and actions
c"
eternity. man. Transitory desires, fears, calcillations, may ait-
'er
"BY George !" cried the captain, with something like nately overbear that master-thought, but the man eann.rl
compunction in his tone, and rubbing his head with his rid himself of it! Day by day he may in his folly
.ant,
handkerchief, " I would rather have taken the rascals and feebleness, rob himself of every solid ground for antletielnt
had them decently hanged, than sent them to the bottom ing heaven, but he cannot endure to surrender the
,e•
in this off-hand manner. You couldn't have made a better hope of it to the last. Nay—his fiercest impulse to Per--f
shot, Mr. Brae, if--" cation is often only his impatience of uncertainty!..
A horrid yell, rising apparently from the very depths uncertainty generated in spite of himself, by the perperuo
beneath the ship, stopped him in the middle of his speech. presence! of dissentient opinions ; the way, he feels, is
A boat glided out of the sieoke, and, shooting under our clear to him—his life is in that conviction—to mar it,
ss
bows, a dozen dark forms were seen springing from it to to leave him comfortless, to plunder him of the eleareo4
the side of the ship. But our precautions had been pleasure of his being; what right then, he cries' n.be
wisely taken, and were completely successful. No sooner grasps the sword—what right has any man to poison ib/
did they touch the slippery vessel than most of them, sources of his peace by practically denying the belief tee
with the most horrid blasphemies, fell back into the sea, which he lives? Miserably—blindly do they scan. 00
snapping their pistols at us even after they were filled with page of history, who can find nothing but folly in religl°oe
water. At the same moment their boat, which had been tumults and religious wars ; these bloody struggles its
completely riddled by our shot, filled and sunk tone bots fought in the very face of Christianity, they violate re-
tom. Three only got upon deck, and were immediately simplest maxims, they are gross and sensual misinterPer
overpowered arid secured. Five more were with difficult
dragged out of the water, and disposed of in the same withal The man who slaughters his foe for relig';
Y cations of its lovely spirit, but—they prove its P°.woug
manner. One powerful fellow, however. was not so aireaeseess is mionl,...—rp.rrnil. mi.talrpn • hut he ~

easily quelled. He had succeeded in getting one foot
upon deck. when a young seaman, named Ralph, flew at
him with the fierceness of a tiger. They closed, and
after balancing a moment between the deck and the
water, the pirate, who was much the heavier man, fell
backwards overboard, dragging his antagonist with him.
They both sunk, but soon rose again about four rods from
the ship, clinging closely together. Then commenced a
combat the most singular and appalling 1 had ever wit-
neseed. No one on board seemed to think of devising
means of assisting our champion. No one dared to fire
upon the pirate; for so closely were they coiled together,
so rapid were their evolutions, and so dim the light shed
by the moon, that it was impossible to hit one without
endangering the life of the other. At the commencement
of the struggle, their efforts seemed to be aimed solely at

rowning

over on t:

ae top o

water, dashing it about like wounded sharks. Both then
sunk and for awhile were lost to our sight. PreSently
they rose again, and exchanged thick and heavy blows.
and dosing with redoubled fury sunk again. Neglecting
to use their weapons, wl.ich would have put a speedy end
to the fray, they fought more like savige beasts of prey'
bent on throttling each other, than like human beings.
" Shall we stand and see our man murdered?" at
length exclaimed a voice fern among the crew. 1:
operated like magic to break the spell that had fallen upon
us all.

" Clear away the boat there !" shouted the captain, and
six men sprang to execute the order. Just then, after an
effort of unusual fierceness, both of the combatants sunk.
Tuey remained out of sight so long, that the men aho
were letting down the boat suspended their operations,
and we all stood breathless with uncertainty and anxiety
awaiting their re-appearance. At length, about thirty
yards otf the waters parted; but only one man was seen
to rise.

" Is it you, Ralph ?" cried the captain, in a suppressed
voice.

" Here is some of him, at least, on my knife-blade,"
responded the freebooter, with the accent and laugh of a
fiend ; and springing nearly to his whole height out of the
water, he threw the weapon with great force towards us.
Another hollow laugh rang over the waters, and, on look-
ing round, wide circles of ripples were seen moving on
the moon!it sea, as if some Leavy body had just sunk into
it. Vengeance was the tardy thought that now rushed on
every heart. Some, in the blinded fury of the moment,
actually discharged their pieces into the centre of those
waving eddies, without staying', to reflect upon its utter
uselessness. Others with their guns in readiness, and
eyes glaring upon the sea like panthers robbed of their
prey, stood prepared to fire the moment he should show
his head above the water. But he rose no more. The
winged messengers of death that had been aimed at his
life sped harmlessly over his head ; and had it been possi-
blehave been seen reposing peacefully onits sandy bottom by
to penetrate the secrets of the great deep, he might
the side of his late antagonist. A sullen silence pervaded
the ship. The men looked gloomily at each other, and
with lowering brows on their helpless prisoners, as if
a sufficient atonement had not been rendered for the life

man ; nought below man—the heir of eternity, the e,_";10
whose true sphere is beyond the grave—could ever
done so. It is a horrible madness, but there is a se,," to
mity in its horrors trio Of such conflicts—if not 6- it
blood, yet surely conflicts ardent, energetic, desperatr-s,
is scarcely possible not to surmise that the world is ell
on the eve. The more the civilized world becomes tif
rapidity. of. intercourse one family, the more prominee'n't
will the differences upon these great questions eraeteet.
themselves, and the more urgently will they dematte.,;, $
tlement. But there is a deeper ground for seticiPsti-V
mortal struggle of religions. The accumulated foreesoo
scientific knowledge for the la-t two centuries, on the or
side—of knowledge gained by pure inductive habits os t $
posed to dogmatic and a priori maxims,—the clahtl °to(
single infallible human authority on the most import°- eta,
all subjects of thought, on thecther,—principles in the
selves almost necessarily hostile, have been frownteind;
each other from their adverse hills for a long perl",o,
skirmishes of the outposts, and one fierce and sortie 011
gegement at the close of the last century—have aijefet
taken place ; but the decisive trial of strength has ne,',.;00
come. The wild onslaught of the French Bevoi,e,;,s(l
upon all religions, decided nothing, and almost Revs
laced
nothing; its literary oracles knew no Christianity hi.,el,-"ris,
the Roman superstition ; to assail it they assailed '',„" jth
tianity itself ; the world at large could not go along a to
this monstrous tactic, and all things speedily returned
of
their old positions arid relations. It is the idle vse)t"heir
French writers to exaggerate the permanent effects e' bare
revolution ; few remarkable chances in civil affairs at the
really had so little. Compare it for one moment o'l' Adel
Reformation of the sixteenth century; the abortive teo'iie
l
reformation, with the real and successful Protestant th
In truth, Christianity in its main elements has so tee 10
cable a hold in the ground of man's nature ; it so graTirbir
with his heart of hearts, and implicates itself with sleet-
deepest feelings, that no attempt at its universal „„firt►
throw will ever—some unimaginable conjecture :roil!
have a chance of lasting success ; the great cent!" The
ever be, not to destroy, but to restore and purify It• ce
of
nations of the world wi l ever take the substenabc4
Christianity for granted, while they dispute flereelf tdo
its circunistantials; the universal human heart calon:,,noe,
without it in some form. To say it without irrece"rree
man's taste is spoiled by such a system as the N..ew.,s, for
tament, in even its corrnptest interpretation, oneil air/
such coarse garbage as the sensualist infidel-4"A ohs'
and unsatisfying hors d' wurres as the more refieevit cats
liever, can furnish. The conflict will be, an° 000
scarcely be long delayed, between the power that ots
to dictate Christianity to the world, and blunder" 11000,
from age to age still maintains its haughty pretff oar
and the inherent claims of the religion itself, in ti!!aqC
plicity of its primitive form. Would to God that !".,offer,
a struggle those who oppose that treniendousei:'o,o;
had not blindly and wantonly deprived thew Jl4s 10:
the strength of union ; and in many lam faith, as f"
t
stances so fallen away from the purity of the AI tbef
make it too often doubtful whether even the e1....it/girt 1-
oppose, is not preferable to the error they Ditile.
Dublin University Mvyasine.