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SECRET OF THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD'S INFLU-
ENCE IN IRELAND.—Chesterfield, regarded as a fop in
England, was a daring, steady, and subtle governor of the
unruly spirits of Ireland in one of the most hazardous
periods. That the throne of the Brunswicks did not see
an Irish revolt at the moment when it saw a Scottish in.
vasion was the service of Chesterfield. But he ruled not
by his wisdom, but by his wit. He broke down fscticns
by bonmots ; he extinguished conspiracy by passing com-
pliments; he administered the sternest law with the most
polished smile; and cut down rebellion by quotations
from La Fontaine and calembourgs from Scarron. But
with these fortunate pleasantries he combined public and
solid services. He threw a large portion of the crown
lands in the neighbourhood of the capital into a park for
the recreation of the citizens, and thus gave one of the
earliest and most munificent examples of regard for the
health and enjoyment of the people. A more enduring
monument of his statesmanship could not have been of-
fered to the gratitude of the country.—Blackwood.
EXTEMPORE PRAYER.—What have I professed con-
cerning conceived prayers, but that which I ever a'loived,
ever practised, both in private and public f God is a
free spirit, and so should ours be in pouring out our vo-
luntary devotions, upon all occasions. Nothing hinders
but that this liberty and a public Liturgy should be good
friends, and may go hand in hand together ; and whoso-
ever would forcibly sever them let them bare their own
blame. An enjoined Liturgy may well stand with the
freedom of a prayer conceived. The desk is no hindrance
to the pulpit. He is wanting to his duty that slackeneth
either service. Surely I do from my soul honour both
(i. e. Liturgical and extempore prayer;) I gladly make
use of both; and praise God for them, as the gracious ex-
ercises of Christian piety, and the effectual furtheranc(-s
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do there ordinarily pray, as freely as they preach ; I pray
God they may do it holily and discreetly in both. While
they are allowed this freedom in their pulpits, what in-
convenience can it be to be limited to solemn, public, but
sacred, forms in their desk ? We allow both : you would
rob us of one : where is the sacrilege ?—Bishop Hall.
THE ENGLISH IN EGYPT.—There is an evident ex-
pectation in the public mind of Cairo that England must,
sooner or later, take a leading part in Egyptian politics ;
and not only here, but all over the cast, every traveller, at
all capable of conversing with the natives, constantly
meets the question—" When are the English coming ?"
It would be difficult to trace the origin of this popular
impression, which certainly had not arisen from any va-
pouring, politically or privately, en the part of the Eng-
lish. There are, moreover, no Englishmen in the Pacha's
service, except the superintendents of the gardens at
Rhoda, and of the sugar plantations in the Said ; but
Frenchmen abound in every department, from Sulieman
Pacha to the apothecaries' apprentices in the female sur-
gery. It was Frenchmen who made Egypt a naval power;
it was a Frenchman who organised the army that all but
overthrew the empire of Constantinople ; it was a French-
man who made the magnificent docks at Alexandria ; and
the celebrated engineer, who caltrols the destinies of
Egypt by means of acting upon the inundations of the
Nile, is M. Linant. So it is, however, as every traveller
will bear witness : England is expected in the East, where,
hitherto, she has never planted a standard, except in de-
fence of the Crescent, and the integrity of its dominions.
That she will ever come forward to vindicate the Cross,
where her best and bravest blood was shed in its defence
six hundred years ago, is very problematical; however,
" Gold wings its way where angels might despair," and
the interests of India may obtain what the Sepulchre of
Christ has been denied.—Eothen.

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FIRST INTERVIEW OF PRINCESS CAROLINE WITH
HER H USBAND.—I immediately notified the arrival of the
King and Prince of Wales; the last came immediately. I,

according to the established etiquette, introduced (no one
else being in the room) the Princess Caroline to him. She
very properly, in consequence of my saying to her it was
the right mode of proceeding, attempted to kneel to him.
He raised her (gracefully enough), and embraced her, said
barely one word, turned round, retired to a distant part of
the apartment, and calling me to him, said, " Harris, I
am not well ; pray get me a glass of brandy." I said,
" Sir, had you not better have a glass of water ?"—upon
which he, much out of humour, said, with an oath, " No
—I will go directly to the Queen," and away be went.
The Princess, left during this short moment alone, was in
a state of astonishment ; and, on my joining her, said,
" Mon Dieu; est ce que le Prince est toujours ccmme
cela ? Je le trouve tres gros, et nullement aussi beau que
son portrait." I said his Royal Highness was naturally
a good deal affected and flurried at this first interview, but
she certainly would find him different at dinner. She was
disposed to further criticisms on this occasion, which
would have embarassed me very much to answer, if luckily
the King had not ordered me to attend him. The draw-
ing-room was just over. His Majesty's conversation
turned wholly on Prussian and French politics, and the
only question about the Princess was, " Is she good-hu-
moured ?" I said, and very truly, that in very trying mo-
ments I had never seen her otherwise. The King said,
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" I am glad of it ;" and it was manifest, from his silence,
he had seen the Queen since she had seen the Prince, and
that_the Prince had made a very unfavourable report of
her. At dinner, at which all those who
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honours of which were done by Lord Stopford as Vice-
Chamberlain, I was far from satisfied with the Princess's
behaviour ; it was flippant, rattling, affected raillery and
wit, and throwing out coarse and vulgar hints about Lady
Jersey, who was present, and though mute, le diable n'en
perdait rien. The Prince was evidently disgusted, and
this unfortunate dinner fixed his dislike, which, when left
to herself, the Princess had not the talent to remove; but,
by still observing the came giddy manners arid attempts at
cleverness and coarse sarcasm, increased it till it became
positive hatred.—Life of Lord Malmesbury.
THE PRINCESS CAROLINE AFTER MARRIAGE.—After
one of these dinners, where the Prince of Orange was pre-
sent, and at which the Princess bad bc-haved very lightly,
and eve❑ improperly, the Prince took me into his closet,
and asked me how I liked this sort of manners ; I could
not conceal my disapprobation of them, and took this op-
:-..-peating to him what the Duke of Bruns-
so often said to me, and that it was expedient
she had been brought up very
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aought, certainly emancipate too much.
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How TO EAT AN ORANGE.—Now, how many ways
there be of satin' an orange. First, there's my way when
I'm alone ; take a bite out, suck the juice, tear off a piece
of the hide, and eat it for digestion, and roll up the rest
into a bail and give it a shy into the street ; or, if other
folks is by, jist take a knife and cut it into pieces, or, if
gals is present, strip him down to his waist, leavin' his
outer garments hanging gracefully over his hips, and his
upper man standing in his beautiful shirt; or else guar-
Or him, with hands off, neat, scientific, and workmanlike ;
or, if it is forbidden fruit to be carved, why, ttarin' him,
with silver forks, into good sizeable pieces for helpin'.—
Sam Slick.

EFFECTS OF TRAFALGAR ON PITT.—On the receipt of
the news of the memorable battle of Trafalgar (some day
in November, 1805), I happened to dine with Pitt, and it
was naturally the engrossing subject of our conversation.
I shall never forget the eloquent manner in which he de-
scribed his conflicting feelings, when roused in the night
to read Collingwood's despatches. Pitt observed that he
bad been called up at various hours in his eventful life by
the arrival of news of various hues, but that, whether
good or bad, he could always lay his head on his pillow
and sink into sound sleep again. On this occasion, how-
ever, the great event announced brought with it so much
to weep over, as well as to rejoice at, that he could not
calm his thoughts. but got up, though it was three in the
morning.—Lord Fitzharris's Note- Book, 1805.
AN AWKWARD PROVERB.—The Chancellor, Lord
Eldon, had mentioned to the Prince the Princess of
Wales, and the hopes her dignity and comfort would be
attended to. The Prince's reply was, "He was not the
sort of person who let his hair grow and -r his wig to pease
his wife." On which the Chancellor respectfully but
firmly said, " Your Royal Highness condescends to be-
come personal—l beg leave to withdraw ;" and accord-
ingly bowed very low, and retired. The Prince, alarmed
at this, could find no other way of extricating himself than
by causing a note to be written the next day to Lord El-
don to say that the phrase he made use of was nothing
personal, but simply a proverb—a proverbial way of say-
ing a man was governed by his wife. Very absurd of Lord
Eldon, but explained by his having literally done what the
Prince said.—Lord Malmesbury's Diary.
THE MIND IN ADVANCED LlFE.—Among other argu-
ments for the cultivation of the intellect, there is one to
be drawn from the perpetual progress of the mind
towards perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving
at it. The infant body springs into boyhood, hardens
into manhood, dwindles down to the decay of age, and
returns to the dust from which it was formed. The
mind runs a similar career in its onward progress, but
not in its retrogression. Though the inroads of disease
or the feebleness of senility may fetter its powers and
obscure their brightness, yet the fact that intellect is fre-
quently retained in its pristine vigour by the advanced in
years, is an argument that the mind does not necessarily
retrograde in old age. In one morning of advanced life,
Johnson amused himself by committing to memory 800
lines of Virgil. At the age of 73, when staggering under
an immediate attack of paralysis—sufficiently severe to
render him speechless—he composed a Latin prayer, in
order to test the loss or retention of his mental faculties.
Nor is this a solitary instance. One of the most beauti-
ful sonnets in the English language was composed by
Mason, on the attainment of his 72d birth-day. Locke
at 72, and Newton at 84, retained their faculties in un-
abated vigour. The feeble frame of the Earl of Chatham,
at 70, sank under the effort to express the convictions of
his mighty mind, after a speech so singularly eloquent,
bold, ardent, and animated, as to rival, if not outvie,
the most brilliant outpourings of his youth or early man-
hood.—Rev. Sir .1. P. Wood.

LORD ELLENDOTIOUGH AND HENRY HUNT.—It was
in those true tery times, now for ever fled—after the pe-
riod " when spies and special juries were unknown," and
before those days when spies have grown historical, and
special juries, even in the exchequer, give verdicts against
the crown—that the celebrated Mr. Henry Hunt, in his
character of redresser of wrongs, became the champion
of an idle lad named Dogood. who had been imprisoned
on some pretence as idle as himself ; and, a,..suming that
the Lord Chief Justice sat for the redress of all grievan-
ces, attended during one long day's sharp sitting at Nisi
Prins, to address Lord Ellenborough on the subject's
wrongs. He found no opportunity, however, on which
even his consummate impudence could seize, till the bu-
siness closed ; for Lord Ellenborough, who had come
down after an interval during which his substitutes had
made slow progress, was rushing through the list like a
rhinoceros through a sugar plantation, or a Common Ser-
geant in the evening through a paper of small larcenies ;
but just as he had nonsuited the plaintiff in the twenty-
second cause, which the plaintiff's attorney had thought
safe to the end of the week, and was about to retire to his
turtle with the conviction of having done a very good
morning's work, an undeniable voice exclaimed, " My
Lord !" and Mr. Hunt was seen on the floor with his pe-
culiar air—perplexed between that of a bully and a mar-
tyr. The bar stood aghast at his presumption ; the ushers'
wands trembled in their hands ; and the reporters, who
were retiring after a very long day, during which, though
some few city firms had been crushed into bankruptcy,
and some few hearts broken by the results of the causes,
they could honestly describe as " affording nothing of the
slightest interest except to the parties," rushed back, and
seized their notebooks to catch any word of that variety
of rubbish which is of "public interest." My lord paused,
and looked thunders, but spoke none. " I am here, my
lord, on the part of the boy Dogood," proceeded the un-
daunted Quixote. His lordship cast a moment's glance
on the printed list, and quietly said, " Mr. Hunt, I see
no name of any boy Dogood in the paper of causes," and
turned towards the door of his room. "My lord !" vo-
ciferated the orator, " am I to have no redress for an un-
fortunate youth? I thought your lordship was sitting for
the redress of injustice in a court of justice." " Oh, no,
Mr. Hunt !" still calmly responded the judge, " I am sit-
ting at Nisi Prius ; and I have no right to redress any in-
juries except those which may be brought before the jury
and me in the causes appointed for trial." "My lord,"
then said Mr. Hunt, somewhat subdued by the unexpected
amenity of the judge, " I only desi re to protest." "0,
is that all ?" said Lord Ellenborough : " by all means
protest, and go about your business!" So Mr. Hunt
protested, and went about his business ; and my lord went
unruffled to his dinner; and both parties were content.—
Life of Lord Eldon.
A SAFE BET.—Miss Elizabeth Peabody offered to lay a
wager, on the Presidential election, with an eligible young
man,—viz., that if Polk was elected, she was the winner,
and should have her opponent for a husband ; and if Polk
were defeated, then her opponent was the winner, and
would be entitled to have her for a wife!

LONDON MARKETS

MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 20

Although at this day's market the supply of English Wheat
was short, no improvement in price could be realised, but
former rates were steadily maintained.

The supply of Barley exceeds the present demand, and the
trade dull at Is. decline.
Malt the turn in favour of buyers.
No alteration in Peas. Beans in good request at fAll prices.
Since last market day about half a dozen vessels oat laden,
hare arrived from Ireland.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE
Wheat, Essex and Kent.
Red
White
Norfolk and Lincoln, red
White
Irish, zed .
Wbite

Rye, old,
Nem

Barley, Grinding
Malting
Chevalier
Malt, Suffolk and Norfolk,
Brown

Kingston and Ware . .
Chevalier
Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed
Potatoe

Youghall and Cork, black
Cork, white
Scotch, feed

Beans, tick

Pigeons

Pease, Grey
Maple
White
Boilers

38 0 -
42 0 -

38 0 -
58 0 -

Flour, town made
Suffolk
Stockton and Norfolk

34 0
36 0
30 0
3R 0
3g 0

36 0 - 40 0
36 0 - 38 0
38 0 - 43 0
40 0 -
33 0

FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND
Wheat, Dantzic 32 0 -

Feed
Bears....

Floor, American
Baltic . ...

18 0
17 0
2g
32 0

24 0 -
28 0 -

FRIDAY, January 24

The arrivals of all descriptions of Grain was tolerably good,
though not extensive excepting Barley, of which there is now
nearly lasso quarters reported. Wheat and other articles are
dull of sale this morning at Monday's prices.