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A FACT.—Brickrnakers have become quite scarce; as
not a labourer can be found, since the growth of tempe-
rance, who will undertake to wet his clay!—Punch.
THE AFFGHANS PROVED TO BE JEWS.—Sir William
Jones, in his " Discourses," says—" There is very solid
ground for believing that the Affghans descended from the
Jews, because they sometimes, in confidence, avow that
unpopular origin, which, in general, they sedulously con-
ceal, and which other Nlussulmans positively assert—be-
cause Hazaret, which appears to be the Pizareth of Esdras,
is one of their territories; and, principally, because their
language is evidently a dialect of the scriptural Chaldaic."
Recent occurrences would rather tend to confirm than to
confute this conjecture. The treachery, the disunion,
and the eagerness for spoil of the modern Affghans, are
not without their close parallels among the ancient He-
brews. The gates of Gaza, carried off by the might of
Sampson, have their counterpart in the celebrated gates
of Somnauth. The Mahomedan Jews of Cahoot sold
their prisoners for a heavy ransom ; and, like their Hebrew
brethren of the present day, they have evinced a decided
predilection for our old clothes.—Colburn.'s Rides in an
Author's Omnibus.

KING O'CONNELL'S INTENDED HOUSEHOLD.—Sup-
posing (says Punch) the present agitation in Ireland to
end in a repeal of the Union, and that O'Connell should
be proclaimed King, by the title of Daniel the First, it
would be a matter of speculation to ccnsider how he would
form his household. We should imagine the following
list of officers to be as accurate as possiole :
COMPTROLLER OF THE RENT.
BRAZEN FACE IN ORDINARY.
WOODEN SHILLELAGH IN WAITING.
HEREDITARY GRAND MENDICANT.
SOLICITOR GENERAL OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.
GROOM OF THE GRAB.

KEEPER OV THE PRIVY PURSE AND HOLDER or

THE HAT.
STEWARD OF THE TAIL.
CLERK OF THE KITCHEN.
SCAMPS OF THE SCULLERY.
LORDS OF THE WASH-HOUSE.
HEREDITARY HIGH HUMBUG.

THE CONFESSION OP A TRUE CHURCHMAN AT
THE PRESENT JUNCTURE." I am of no sect, but
' the sect of the Nazarenes;' of no party, but the party
of the Church in England, which I hold to be Catholic,
as maintaining all Christian truth, held by all, at all
limes, and in all places; and Protestant, as protesting
against certain corrupt and dangerous novelties, both in
doctrine and practice, maintained by that branch of the
church which holds communion with Rome. In neces-
sary points—viz., the articles of the creed, &c.—l am
bound by the constant belief of the Church Catholic, as
developed and expressed in our own thirty-nine articles.
In dubious points—viz., all subordinate verities, or points
of pious opinion contained in the said articles—l am bound
in my own sense, with a modest deference ter the received
interpretation and usage of my own branch of the church.
In all points I strive to cultivate charity—thinking the
best, and hoping the best, of all who profess and call
themselves Christians, and who shew, by the meekness
of their tempers, and the holiness of their lives, that they
have the spirit of Christ. And I do, from the bottom of
my heart, deprecate the disposition to sow and foster dis-
sention in this particular church, by setting up new tests
of doctrine, and affixing party names and distinctions;
whether with the intention, or as tending to the effect, of
driving members out of her communion to Rome, on one
hand, or to Geneva on the either. To sum up all in one
word—my motto is, in necessariisunitas—in dubiis Fiber-
tar—in omnibus caritas."—Church Intelligencer.
HINTS. ON HEALTH.—" A man," says Sir William
Temple, " has but these four things to choose out of—to
exercise daily, to be very temperate. to take physic, or to
be sick." We may venture to assert, with a much later
writer, that the principal secrets of health are early rising,
exercise, personal cleanliness, and leaving the table unop-
pressed.—When a family rises early in the morning, con-
clude the house to be well governed, and the inmates in-
dustrious and healthy.—With respect to• exercise, there is
a simple and benevolent law of nature—" Earn that you
may enjoy." In other words, secure a good digestion, by
exercise.—As much, perhaps, may be said concerning ab-
lution, as exerciee. " Dispel the ill- humors from the
pores." Cleanliness is a virtue, though not the first in
rank, one of the first, at least, in necessity.—On the sub-
ject of temperance, that sturdy moralist, Johnson, speak-
ing of a book in which it was recommended, observed,
" Such a book should come out every 30 years, dressed
in the mode of the times." " He that wculd eat much,"
says the proverb, " must eat little." Let us not, how-
ever, confound temperance with starvation—on the con-
trary, it is strictly moderation. We may be intemperately
abstemious, as wellas intemperately luxurious. From all
that has been said and written on the subject—from the
experience of every are and every clime, we may conclude,
that they are the most healthy, who have nature for their
cook—hunger for their caterer : who have no doctor but
the sun and fresh air—and no other physic than tem-
perance and exercise."

Tug SINGING Motisit.--This heading, strangeas it ap-
pears, is not a fiction, as the incredulous may ascertain to
their complete satisfaction by a visit. We give the fol-
lowing account, furnished us by an intelligent corres-
pondent :—I have much pleasure in endeavouring to give
you some account of a musical phenomenon whieh.l have
just beheld and heard. I, will do so in as lucid a.manner
as lam able. This wondenis in the shape of a " singing
mouse!" Let it not mise the smile of incredulity, for
sing it does in verity. The little creature is the common
house mouse, of the masculine gender. When II heard
him he was in full song—having all the notes of a full-
gown canary. The imitation in the sostenuto passages
and cadences of that bird was perfect. I feel assured
that no deception was practised, for by the aid a. ens,-
asf.st winch I purposely borrowed, 1 could observe
the tremulousness of the throat ; and I asked the proprie-
tor to retire from the room for a moment, which he did,
in. order that I might convince myself that 1 was. not
being made the dupe of ventriloquism. I then placed
my ear close to him, and the effect was still the-same.
No human being could make- his piano passages. One
circumstance places this beyond doubt. For sometimes
parties have to wait a considerable time before he will
pipe. An instance of this kind' happened recently at the
Palace, where he was taken for the little Prince of Wales
and,the Princess to hear him. But I was informed that
he fully made up for this silence by afterwards singing
more lustily than he ever did before. He requires- to be
attentively observed, and by so doing you catch his
variety. When quite still his notes are surpassingly dis-
tinct, and have all that peculiarity of the notes-of the
canary when he is singing himself to sleep. While he
was in motion, I tried the effect of sound upon him by
viFrating a tuning-fork upon the table. This, although
repeated several times, neither deterred him from singing,
nor in the slightest degree alarmed him. If 1 may hazard
a conjecture, his pitch is more than an octave above that
of the bird he imitates. It is very difficult to guess how
this faculty got into him ; for supposing that he listened
to the canary from his hiding-place, the larynx is not
formed for such a purpose. However. I must leave the
matter to physiologists and modern Danes Barringtons,
simply contenting myself with silent wonder, now and
then exclaiming " prodigious I"—Globe.

"MAKING A House."—To a person unacquainted
with, the technicalities of these things, the " making a
House" is a riddle. Some people suppose that the whole
658 members post down at four o'clock, in order to dis-
charge their duty to their constituents, regardless of all
the other attractions to pleasure which their wealth and
leisure afford them. Not so, however, in fact. On the
contrary, there is often the greatest difficulty in getting
together the number (40) that are necessary in order to
make a House. Indeed there are particular members of
the Government and Opposition whose especial duty it is
to collect the members on particular occasions, and bring
them up to their duty. Thee gentlemen are called
" whippers-in," and a most unruly pack it sometimes is
that they have to keep in order. The present whippers-in
for the Government are Sir Thomas Freemantle and Mr.
Manners Sutton. The former is a most remarkable spe-
cimen of jthe genus. Small in stature, quick in motion,
and keen in perception, he seems cut out by nature for
the task. He appears deeply sensible of its importance.
Possibly he reasons thus :—The public business cannot
go on without a House of Commons; the House of Com-
mons cannot go on without forty members ; the duty of
providing these forty members rests with me ; ergo, it
depends on me whether the business of this great empire
shall be carried on or not. In accordance with this esti-
mate of his important functions, Sir Thomas is to be seen,
early and late, watching his flock—now viewing them as
a whole from one of the galleries—now peeping from be-
hind a pillar, cat-like, lest they should get away unper-
ceived. If a young and pleasure-loving member, one of
'the white waistcoat school, should exhibit a restlessness
in his seat, symtomatic of opera or soiree dasanle, this
" whipper-in" par exeellence is down upon him in an in-
stant, reminding him that the government counted on his
presence in keeping the house together. And so the poor
young man is kept for another weary hour from his lady-
love, until some heavy country member returns from his
dinner and claret, who fills up the space which he has oc-
cupied, and so seta him at liberty. It would be scarcely
too much to affirm that the whippers-in know every mem-
ber's favourite haunt, so that he can be " whipped-up" at
a quarter of an hour's notice, should a premature division
be threatened. It is then, indeed, that Sir Thomas Fre-
mantle is seen in his absolute glory. With the eye of a
general he can reckon the number of his troops at a glance.
If they are enough, well and good : the satisfied secretary
takes his seat by the premier, thinking, " Come what
may, we, at least, are prepared for the worst." But,
should it be otherwise, then is he to be seen in full blown
activity, with a forty-ferret frown of vision, skipping about
the house, up the stairs, down the lobbies, scouring the
libraries, dodging this runaway, peremptorily holding the
button of that, whispering, entreating—no sheep dog
could be more watchful, more determined, more unrelent-
ing. This is the active life of the whipper-in. His lei-
sure hours are spent in counting the honse for amuse-
ment. A whipper-in seldom addresses the house.
Counting, not talking, is his vocation, and when he does
talk, It is usually in defence of his counting. Thus it was
that Sir Thomas spoke lately. His reason was plain why
there was not a house. He only whips-in, he says, for
his own people—let the opposition keep their own hunts-
man. Now, they did not expect government business on
Tuesday ; but Lord John Russell had given notice of an
important motion. Therefore, says Sir Thomas, whip in
for yourselves, ye opposition. I had enough to do with
these refractory young bloods on the tory side. March
you your men through Coventry. lam not to make a
rod for my own back. When I was in opposit!on. I used
to whip up my own people ; do you likewise ! It is not
to he expected of me that I should discharge the functions
at once of her Majesty's government and her Majesty's
opposition. The truth is, Lord John Russell wanted an

ex use for shirking his motion.
of Sir Thomas Fremantle's high Fen

e limits of 1

duty to gain his end.—Britannia

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DONCASTER RACES.—NioNnAy, SP:PT. 11

A MATCH for 300 sons, h ft. St. Leger Course.
Mr Payne's hr f Mania, 3 yrs, 7st fib ........ (Nat) 1
Lord Eglington's b f Blue Bonnet, 4 yrs, Sst 91b bolted.
5 and 6 to 1 on Mania.

Her MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas, for three-year-
olds, 7st 9tb ; four, 9st ; five, 9st 91b ; six and aged,
10st. Four miles. . _

Mr. Cook's br c Trueboy, 3 yrs
Mr. Cuthbert's br f Queen of the Tyne, 4 vrs
Lord Exeter's br f Wee Pet, 3 yrs 3

Mr. I. Day's gr h Portrait, 5 yrs
Mr. Hornby's hr g Champagne, 6 yrs 5
Won cleverly by a length.
The CHAMPAGNE STAKES of 50 soya each, h. ft. for two-
year-old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 510. The owner of
the second horse to save his stake ; and the winner to
give six dozen of Champagne to the Racing Club. Red
House in. Thirty-two subscribers
Mr. Williamson's b c The Cure. ( Heseltine) 1
Mr. Osbaldstone's ch f Sister to Martindale
Mr. Irwin's b c Foig-a-Ballagh, by Sir Hercules .... 3
The following also started :—Coal• black Rose, Fanny
Eden, Brunel, All round my Hat, Epilogue,Telemachus,
and The Princess. Won in a canter by two lengths.
A PLATE of 50 sovs, for horses that never won a plate or
sweepstakes ; three-years-old, 7st 71b ; four, Bst 71b ;
five and upwards, 9st. Heats, St. Leger Course. En-
trance 2 sovs, to go to the owner of the second horse.
_

Lord Exeter's br c Revocation, 4 yis .. (Darling) 1 1

Mr. Mostyn's br c Lytham, 4 yrs
Mr. St Paul's b o Cheviot, 3 yrs
TUESDAY.
The TWO•YEAR-OLD PRODUCE STAKES Of 100 soya each
h. ft ; for colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b. Red House
in. Two subscribers. _

Lord Westminster's br f Carol (Templeman) walked over.
The CLEVELAND HANDICAP of 20 soya each, h. ft, and
5 only if declared, &c., with 60 added by the Corpora-
tion. The owner of the second horse received back his
stake, and the winner paid 10 sovs towards expenses.
One mile.

Lord Chesterfield ch h Knight of the Whistle, by Ve-
locipede, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b
Lord Eglinton's b f Blue Bonnet, 4 yrs. 7st 71b...... 2
Mr. Meikharn's ch c Philip, 3 yrs, Gst 91b
Mr. Skelton's br c Peter Plimley, 3 yrs, 6st
Mr. Walker's br c Ravenswo.rth, 3 yrs, sst 101 b
A beautiful race, and won by a head.
The GREAT ST. LEGER STAKES of 50 Soya each, h. f;
for three-year-old colts, Bst 71b ' - fillies, 8s 21b. The
second to receive 200 sous out of the stakes, and the
third to save his stake. The winner to pay 30 sous to
the judge. St. Leger Course (1 mile. 6 furlongs, 132
yards). 127 subscribers.
Mr. S. Wrathees b c Nutwith ......... (Marlon) 1
Mr. Bowes's b c Cotherstone

Lord Chesterfield's ch c Prizefighter ..... . (Holmes) 3
Mr. Payne's br f Man'a .• (Nat) 0
Lord Eglinton's b c Aristides
Lord Exeter's bc by Heir= ... (Robinson) 0
Mr. D. Cook's b c Trueboy
Mr. Bell's ch c Reviewer (Noble) 0

Major Yarburgh's Dumpling (Templeman) 0
Betting: 7 to 4on Cotherstone, 4 to 1 against Prize-
fighter, 7 to 1 against Lncetta colt, 15 to 1 against Nut-
with, 16 to 1 against Aristides, 17 to 1 against Mania, 25
to 1 against Dumpling, 30 tot against Trueboy, and. 100
to 1 against Reviewer.
After taking their preparatory canter past the Stand,
the lot were got in order, and,• after two attempts, suc-
ceeded in effecting a beautiful start, Prizefighter being
about a length a-head. Nutwith second, Mania third, and
Cotherstone fourth ; the others lying close up, and com-
posing the rack, of which Aristides was last ; in this order
they continued over the hill, and at the Red House the-
pace was tremendous. On arriving at the distance, Co-
therstone,• who had laid very wide of has horses through-.
out the race, now made an effort, caught Mania, and in a
few strides passed her ; half way up the distance Prize-
fighter fell back, and Nutwith obtained the command,
which he maintained to the end ; and,• after one of the
finest races ever witnessed, won very cleverly by a head;
Cotherstone beating Prizefighter by a• head for the second
place. Mania was fourth, and the others well together at
the finish.—Value of the Stake, £3,070:

The SELLING STAKES of 10 sovs each, with 30 added by

the Corporation. St. Leger Course., (5 subs.)
Mr Gully's br c The Era, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b .. (Simpson) 1
Mr Dawson's ch f The Biddy, 4 yrs, Bst

Mr Crsbaldeston's b f Martingale, 3 vrs, G9t'l2lb .... 3
The CORPORATION PLATE of £O.
Sir C. Monck's b c Flagsman, 4 yrs.. (Cartwright) 1 1
Mr Palmer's br fby Voltaire, 3 yrs . . 2 2
WEDNESDAY.
MATCH for 200 sous, Ii ft, both two-year-olds.

Lord Chesterfield's cb f Joan of Arc, by Gladiator 1
Lord Glasgow's bf by Voltaire, out of Snowball .... 2

Joan of Arc the favourite

Won easy.

The FOAL STAKES of 100 soya each, for three-yr-olds.
Lord Eglinton's b c Aristides, Bst 71b.. (G. Noble) 0 1
Col. Anson's b c Armytage, Bst 71b ..
5t04 on Armytage. Won by a length
The MUNICIPAL STAKES. of 300 sous each, 200, ft, for
two-year-old colts, Bst 71b•;- fillies, Bst 41b. (7 subs.)
Lord Glasgow's bc by Velocipede, out of Amulet.... 1
Lord Chesterfield's br fby Touchstone—Rowton's dam 2
Col. Anson's b c Joe Lovell, by Velocipede . 3
Joe Lovell the favourite. Won by a length

The GREAT" YORKSHIRE HANDICAP Of 25 S-OVS

with 200'added by the Corporation. (76 subs.)'
Lord Eglinton's br c Pompey, 3 yrs, 6st 71b
Mr Forth's Venus 3 yrs, 65t......
I.lthie or tticnmond's b c Lothario, 3 yrs. oat.. ___ _: , 2

The following also started :—Priscilla Tomboy, Queen
of the Tyne, Billingham Lass, Semiseria, The Conqueror,
Eboracum, Give him a Name, Jack. Belle Dame, Lucy
Banks, fby Silkworm, Scalteen, and Portrait. Won.by
a head : a fine race.

Betting : 4 to 1 agst The Conqueror, 5 to 1 agst Lotba-
rio, 6 to 1 agst Pompey, 7 to r each agst Semiseria and
Venus, 13 to 1 agst Portrait, 108 to 4 agst Eboracum, and
100 to 6 each agst Belle Dame, Priscilla Tomboy, and
Jack.

The DONCASTER STAKES of 10,sova each, with 50 added
by the Corporation.

walked over.

Lord Westminster's b f lndiana4 3 yrs
THURSDAY.
SWEEPSTAEES•Of 200 sous each,. h ft, for three-year-old
colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. (19 subs.)
Mr Bowes's b c Cotherstone .

Col. Anson's ch c Napier .......... .......
Lord Eglinton's b c Aristides__ ....
4tol on Cotherstone. Won easy

The TWO-TEAR-OLD STAKES of 20 sovs each, for twe.

year-old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. (34 subs.)
Col. Anson's ch f The Princess,.by Slane..
Lord G. Bentinck's b f All round my Hat 2
Mr Williamson's b c The Cure, by Physician..
Six others started. Won easy.

The INN }CREPE as' PLATE of 15,sovs each, with 100 added
by the Innkeepers. (15 subs.)
Sir R. Buikeley's b c Bishop of Romford's Cob, 3 yrs,
6st
_ _

Mr Meiklam's ch c Philip, 3 yrs, 7st
Nine others started. Won by nearly twenty lengths
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. --
The CuP of 300 sous, with 50 for the second ;. three-year-
olds, 7st ; four, Bst 51b ; five, B,t l2lb ; six and aged,
9st 21b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b.
Mr Wormald's b m Alice Hawthorne, 5 yrs (Heseltine) 1
Mr Johnstone's be h Charles XII, aged.... (Marson) 2
Col. Anson's b c Arundo, 3 yrs
The following also started :—Wee Pet, Dumpling, The
Biddy, Gorhambury, Venus, Semiseria, and Peter the
Hermit. Won in a canter by several lengths.