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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Feb. IS, 184

Etterattia

ST. STEPH E

..s uN A QUICESAND.—It seems that the pecially the later, who are idlers by profession, and ex- I MAYNOOTH. That St. Peter was the first Bishop of Rome—that he qualified to work full time, would make them taken,
iiv Houses of Parliament are built on a quicksand, ;Jetty correspond to Captain Widdrington's description. , NO COMPACT TO CONTINUE OR AUGMENT THE GRANT. bequeathed his apostolic authority to his successors in the means of learning should be supplied. The WI
which, says the account, " has a tendency to change These gentry have notning particular to lose by any parti- ' that see,—what are these but assumptions of the boldest schools, where nothing effectual is taught, would,
places and shift itself." Considering how cOlen the mem- cular rumpus, and they flatter themselves they may gain ; I
(From the Dublin Evening Mail. character? in support of which not one scintilla of evi- force of circumstances, become good schools, an'
dence can he produced. In the present instance we find members would rapidly increase. The measure, '
hers shifted and changed places last sessioo, on the very besides, they cannot always be playing mottle, or taking same questions, we do not think a better foundation could the siesta; and even if they could, a change is sometimes 1 The statement of Sir Robert Peel, deliberately and so-
good and able men, like Lord Sandon. submitting to this confined to factories, would turn to the advantage t
minty made in his speech on the address, that the pro-
have been selected for them to deliberate upon. Hence- aireeable. Now and then, too, they get tired of hearing. imposition, just as the Augustines of old subniittted to for it cannot be foretold in the infant school whed
posal to take from the College of Maynooth the allowance
forth our legislators will be able to shift on the best of Aristides called the Just—that is a very common thingthe pretensions of the alleged successor of St. Peter. chill will go thence to a factory, a calico printer's
granted to it was in violation of an engagement which had
grounds. It would read rather strangely, though, if the with Spaniards—sortie mischievous political agent comes
But amidst all the talk about a contract, which has now dyeing ground; and all the poor will be taught, fro
been entered into by a parliament exclusively Protest
evening papers ended their parliamentary report, some amongst them, they are soon excited, get hold of an old
gone on for years in the House of Commons, we search wish that all should be qualified for full employale°
—the parliament of Ireland—is not merely the founds-torn)), afternoon, with an intimation that the house was musket or fowling piece, chuck up their sombreros, cry
in vain for any one man who can actually produce the benefits will even reach such agricultural districts
don of Sir R. Peel's opinion, but is the ground on which
left staiing," for the quicksand might shift the house, viva la Liberia I / and rush about the town uttering yri-
document of which he speaks ; and can let us see what in the habit of sending their surplus population to nt
the great majority of English Conservative members have
'--- little, right into the middle of the Thames. But fos ; and in a few hours, and before they have any clear
this " contract" really is, and to what we are bound by it. demand in your vicinities. There is no want of bl
aselatinn-- '1,,-- '" ' 11 the house, idea of what they have been doing, they are told that they suffered that grant to continue ; and, assuming that state- It is very observable, and may of itself give us some lent disposition amongst the manufacturers and ade
meat to be correct, it will be the ground on which they idea of the truth of the case, that those statesmen whose improve your condition ; Englishmen will in I
-Punch. are heroes and patriots, that " Spaniards never shall be
will concur in its augmentation,' Lord Rand n, the mem-
.,,AKE.—vvaterton, the traveller, gives slaves," and all the rest of the humbug and claptrap that
characters are the highest, are just those who speak of wish to do their duty, when they clearly understit
her for Liverpool, the leader of zealoushPnrotestaanftsliine
the following account of catching a snake :—He had sent revolutionary agitators always have upon their tongue's
rescuir, that noble constituencthis supposed contract with the greatest doubt and hest- but interest is a great quickener of the intellect i!
his Indian servant, Daddy Qiiashi, to lank for something tip. The poor idiots, fizzing and boiling over with their
tation. Thus, Mr. Gladstone (in his work, The State in respect, and we cannot expect any steady co-operati
combinedg powers of radicalism and frominfidetlitey graspdots it as its RPlalions to the Church, p. 252) says. " IF, indeed, your instruction till it is made necessary to 370?
he had lost in the forest ; and during his absence, he says fire-new enthusiasm, aimless and causeless as it is, are in
the foundation of his intention to support infidelity, adopts
adopts
—I discovered a young Coulacanaro, ten feet long, slowly ecstasies for .bout a week, or until they discover, what is
meat augmentation. On the same occasion, he said "he our faith be pledged to the College, by all means let us to era ; and in order to obtain that you u3llBl
moving onwards : I saw he was not thick enough to break pretty often the case, that instead of being better off, they
acquit ourselves of the obligation." And Sir Robt. Peel, manifestly an earnest desire for that advantage.,
i was not acquaintei with thepeculiarities of
my arm, in case he got twisted around it. There was not have exchanged King Log for King Stork. The fact is,
but he considered it to be an inheritance from th Maynooth,lrish in the debate of
.June 23, 1840, used the same doubtful alacrity with which some kind hearted manufa
a moment to be lost. I laid hold of his tail with the left Spaniards arc not at present fit for a mild and constitus
language. " I will not give any pledge to withdraw this who employ a great force of hands, and are in the
g 21fagaz,nt.
parliament, and he confessed that he thought it was their grant next year ; because IF there is any contract or of taking the lead in all good works, have signed the'
hand, one knee being on the ground ; with my right hand tional government. Espartero, who had got the country
duty to carry out the sirit of the en aement entered
I took off my hat, and held it as you would a shield of into something like a state of respectability, fell into the
into with the Irish parliament. It was g g generally admit- agreement, it would be eepplly violated by withdrawal sent, as well as the last year's petitions, is aso
SELECTIONS. defence. The snake instantly turned and came on at me,
next year as in the present.' proof that no injury will result to them from the nie
error, of imagining that they were •; arid such was in great
ted that we continu under that engagement.gen Hey there-
with his bead about a yard from the ground, as if to ask measure the cause of his overthrow. The iron and re_ led
thought they should enable anestablish establishment of that Such has been the doubt and hesitation exhibited by proposed which can counterbalance its great advent!
ADVENTURE WITH A BOA CONSTRICTOR. me what business I had to take liberties with his tail. I morseless rule of a of
will perhaps suit them better,
kind to give such instruction as would fit it to take its men of any rank as statesmen. Inferior persons, indeed, ' you. I have been asked more than once why I looks',
Captain C—, of her Majesty's 84th Feot, was one of let him come, hissing and open-mouthed, within two feet and of a certainty it is what a large pardon of them richly
place amongst the great Catholic universities of Eursipe." the Wards and Shells, have always boldly asserted that education in factories when it is equally or more vas,
the most indefatigable sportsmen I ever met with, arid of my face, and then—with all the force I was master of— deserve."—lrackwood.
If, therefore, we demonstrate that no such engagement " Parliament was bound by a solemn contract,"—but we the agricultural districts? I fully admit their urgent°
may search in vain through the debates of twenty years, for better instruction ; and I have ere now, both in!
the entire of his time that could be spared from regimen- I drove my fist, shielded by my hat, full in his jaws. He ---------__
was made, or intended, or can be implied, but that, on the without once finding the production of such a contract, and in private, advocated a special measure forthat prat
tat duty was passed in jungles. He was a man of vast was stunned and confounded by the blow, and ere he '
contrary, the nature of the incorporation of Maynooth
personal strength, could undergo any degree of fat:gue, could recover himself, I bast seized his throat with both TOWN EDITION. is repugnant to the very idea of its having been intended or even any distinct or definite reference to it. but the late enactments relating to factories appear t°
From the hesitation, then, of the men of character, and der the regulations now proposed obvious, arid of es'
in short possessed a perfectly iron constitution. His ha- hands, in such position that he could not bite me. I then
_____ _____ to be kept up by parliamentary grants, we remove the the boldness of men without character, let us turn to the plication. I say, therefore, to those on whose behalf
bits, too, were anything but luxurious—a simile attendant allowed him to coil himself round my body, and marched
foundation of Sir Robert Peel's opinion, and we leave records of the past. exerting ourselves, show that •you are not indifferel
carrying a rifle of large bore, a small carpet to sleep on, off with him as my lawful prize. He pressed me hard, LONDON MARKETS OF YESTERDAY. Maynooth to rest, as it ought and as it was intended to
The act by which Maynooth College was established, the subject; that you know the value of education',
a limited stock of linen, and a good supely of ammunition, but not alarmingly so. In the meantime, Daddy Quashi . 1 -
rest, on its own merits, to receive support, if that support passed the Irish parliament in 1795, and it states in its join with heart and hand in thus asking for it. TO'
accompanied the sportsman, who pursued his game by having returned, and hearing the noise which the fray ______,_____
should be necessary, and if experience of its working
tions lie at Mr. Sowler's, in St. Anne's-square, Pt
day, and at night sought shelter in some village, perfectly occasioned, was coining cautiously up. As soon as he
MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE. should prove that it was deserved. lareamble the cause which rendered it necessary :
" Whereas, by the laws now in force in this kingdom, Mr. Pratt's, in Bridge-street, and in the hands an
careless as to his accommodations in the way of food or saw me, and in what company I was, he turned about and
At the time the act of incorporation passed, it was un-
it •s not tanifu/ to endow any college yr seminaryfor the and of the clergy in general at Manchester, and o,iii;
lodging, his beverage being moreover the simple element, ran off home, I after him, and shouting to increase his
lawful to endow a seminary for the exclusive education of 1 - - of
education, exclusively g persons rorofessing th. Roman other persons. Obtain two copies of signatures, en
i tdi aoyntsi
mmparrokvectdw.
and
dafido
ea
simples
a, imr
ps tiocpspliyo o fb
better
rl i
requests h Whe aatt,
for he never carried with him supplies of any kind, trust- fear. On scolding him for his cowardice, the old rogue 1 theAteotinlids
Roman Catholics. That illegality, of course, did not af-
s
• tn. iic religion ; and it is now become expedient that a ing the occupation of those who sign, written on 00,,,
ing his commissariat aid to Providence and rural hospita. begged I would Ergive him, for that the sight of the snake Free foreign seay in value,
thre currreincy .tf t hdi s day week,
bboutts secondaryu,i
llimited
isoo sorts i
els.. elhhecapseert:
feet the operations of parliament; for if the legislature
lity. had positively turned him sick.—Waterton 's Wanderings less of barley held firmly for late rates, and the market wears a
designed to endow any establishment, the act of endow- seminary should be established for that purpose," Sse. only of a sheet of paper, and deliver them to be atiti•
. .
This act was passed at the request of the Roman Catho- the roll of petitioners or originate separate petiti,
more healthy aspect, with an apparent check to any further
In this manner Captain C-- became well known to in South America.
ment, at the same instant, gave the money, and made it 1' themselves.d The Romitsh. Archbishop Dr.
i'crioy, you prefer it, amongst' yourselves. separate
downward tendency.
the natives of the country in every direction where sport MILITARY LIFE IN INDIA.—A corps of officers in In Malt, Peas, and Beans, there was a moderate consump- lawful to give it. But the purpose of the legislature being
memorialized ther gernmehn , insisting on the iar s itp With. hearty prayers for your welfare and edit_,l
was to be obtained. He was sufficiently acquainted with India is, in the true sense of the word, a large family. tive demand, but no improvement could be realised in either that the intended seminary should be endowed by private an the anger o. ghatnog t e Insh priests tpo.btain their I remain, your obedient and faithful humble serval%
their language to make himself understood, and the kindly There is something hearty, confidential in the manner in article. Tuere is a great languor in the Oat trade. Sales individuals, or by the application of their subscriptions by
simplicity of his manner attached them to his person, and which the youngest officer at table challenges the general coital only be made to necessitous buyers at former prices : the trustees for the purpose of endowment—their act recites education abroad, and thus obtained permtsston to este- WILLIAM HERBERT, Dean of Mancha.
many of them indeed had been known to walk miles to to drink a glass of wine with him. At the same time, ;Principal purchase's held. off purchasing for increased arrivals, „
that it was unlawful to endow a seminary for the ex- blish a college. Manchester, Feb. 3, 1845.
and better choice otquaLty.
The first clause names the trustees, and provides that
give him early information of large zame, which were his there is the strictest regard to duty in the service, and
elusive education of persons professing the Roman Ca-
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favourite object of pursuit. Captain C— was thus quite never a neglect of that respect which the younger owes to CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. tholic religion; and after further reciting that the erection " the said trustees shall have full power and authority to
receive subscriptions and donations, to enable them to
"at home" in the Wynaud jungle and great western the elder. But the British army in India requires, like Wheat, Essex and Kent. s. d. s. d. of such a seminary was expedient, it appoints the Lord
ghouls, where he probably brought to bag single-handed most other armies, the vigour and energy of youth at the Red 3B 0—47 0 Chancellor, the two Chief Justices, and the Chief Baron, establish and endow an academy." '
more head of large game—elephants, bisons, tigers, and head of the troops. Most of the generals and staff White
the like—than any other man ever did before, or ever will officers are too advanced in age, and never find oppor- Norfolk and Lincoln, red 98 0—46 o
Rev. Richard O'Reilly, of Drogheda, Doctor in Divinit tenth, which enacts, " that a sum or sums of money not
White..
yi exceeding £B,OOO shall and may be issued by the Trea- CHESTER CUP.
again in India.
tunity to arrange and to move great masses. They
the Rev. John Thomas Troy, of the city of Dublin,
Irish, red
sury towards ESTABLISHING the said academe."
red
9 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Semiseria (taken, and after
When upon one of these excursions, Captain C— have passed the greater part of their lives in India ; White _ _ _ Doctor in Divinity, and other persons, whom we know
But it is obvious that a donation towards the establish-
happened to be passing the night at a small village in the ' some have not visited their native country since they Rye, old 3O 0— 34 o historically, to have constituted, with these ecclesiastics,
offered) 1
meat of an academy can never imply a contract to pay
Virynaud jungle, when a ryot, who had been out very late were seventeen years of age ; others, tx-rhaps only New - t
25 1 Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence
searching for a stray bullock, came to tell him of a large I for a short time ; the Indian mode of •
life has be- Barley, Grinding '23 0— IS 0 purpose of establishing, endowing, and maintaining one the same or a largersum for the annual maintenance of
that establishment. And accordingly we find, that while
cheetul or spotted deer, which he had watched to its lair. come a second nature to them. Even among the Malting
academy for the education only of persons professing the 27 1 —. Mr. H. Stebbing's Celeste
38 0 00 0
subsequent grants were made, they often were of smaller 30 1 Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare a
He had also heard from the villagers that a snake had captains, young men are seldom found, most of them malt, Suffolk and Norfolk 5B 0 ti. ri Roman Catholic religion—such trustees to have the power amount than the first. Thus, in 1800, only X 4,093 was
been seen several times in that neighbourhood. He not having attained that rank till after eighteen years Brown 56 o—6o o to receive subscriptions and donations, to enable them to iven and in 1801, only £5,820. 30 1 —bit. Parry's Zanoni
II
started accordingly after his game at day-break, accocn- service, though they obtain the rank of brevet captain Kingston and Ware . s30 1 —The Duke of Richmond's Strathspey
g Wh'ere, then, is the contract by which the State bound
ponied by the villager and a favourite dog, which rarely after fifteen years' service. The difficulties with which I c hevalier
not exceeding one thousand pounds a-year. Now, with-3.3 1 Mr. Williamson's Extempore
left his heels unless ordered. After proceeding about the general of an Indian army has to contend, exceed all !oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed 22 0—23 0 out stopping to use one word of reasoning, we ask, will itself to maintain Ma ?On the contrary, we have 33 —1 Mn' Bell's Winesour (taken)
40 1 Mr. Meiklam's Trueboy (taken)
half a mile through very dense jungle, and being, as the our notions of the mode of making war. He has to pro- Potatoe
any man say that such an enactment imports an engage- the highest authority for aserting that in consenting to
Youghall and Cork, black
the establishment of the college, arid in giving a donation
villager supposed, near the spot where the cheetul had vide for the maintenance of armies : the combatants and
ment on the part of the parliament that passed it, to sup- 50 1 Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-Ballagh
Cork, white
" towards its establishment," the government of that day
laid down, Captain C of a sudden missed his doe, and the train; the latter being the most numerous, the most
Of the very select lot enumerated above, only Seidl:
Scotch feed
in the bushes about ten yards off, ac- irregular, and the most burdensome ; not only, because Beans, tick '
whimpering TIOiS". Ile turned in that di- all must live under tents, but on account of the large Pigeons
various attempts to back Zanoni and Extempore figellyo
diet he at the first glance took for a number of servants required for attendance, and for con- Pease, Grey
35 0—37 0 and its spirit, we have examined the journals of both now Duke of WeLington, said,—and he bad the fullest
black and brown, but . veying all the necessaries of life, and the strict adherence maple l6 o—4o 0
houses for that year, and they furnish pregnant evidence want of a slight advance on the quitted prices. 100tigi
really was—a huge, of the Hindoo to his customs. Each seapoy carries his White
opportunity of knowing the truth of what he asserted,—
that, not only no engagement to maintain the institutionwas laid two or three times, and in one instance Pi'
Boilers 3B 0 43 0
that "the fact was, that when the Mavn nth Institution
enormous boa constrictor, which had seized his poor kitchen utensils with him when Ise goes into camp, erects Flour, town made
15, agst Foig-a-Bella
was first established, it was not intended that it should
Juno, and was at the moment crushing her to atoms in his own little hearth, surrounds it with a circle, to keep Suffolk ao 0—45 o by annual grants was at that time made, but that, sustain-
ea 0— 35 o ing or assisting it by annual grants at all was not origin- be maintained by the public purse. The memorial pre- THE DERBY.
its terrible coils. The native who was with him saw what the uninitiated from the food which be prepares for him- Stockton and Norfolk 33 0—35 0 ally in cotitemplation.
aerated previously to the foundation of that establishment 10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm, (taken, and after/4
it was likewise, and immediately fled. Captain C— self alone, and, in this. no caste may mingle with the
Prayed for a charter, in order that their funds might be
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. The act, no doubt, contains an additional section,
offered)
afterwards described the appearance of the reptile, when other.—Travels in It'd a.
granting £B,OOO to the trustees ; but it is in such re-better secured." 13 --I —Col. Col. Peel's Cobweb colt
thus coiled round his dog, as somewhat resembling a bar- i 'heat Dantzic.. -
30 0 markable words as regative the idea that the establish-
ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.—The ways aria " '
So that it is clear that the original request of the Ro- 14 1 Col. Anson's Kedges
•
rel, every portion in violent muscutar motion, and he dis- traits of character of all little children possess an interest ; Barley Hamburg
27 0— ea o ment was then intended to be supported by annual grants man Catholics was merely for something like the Cheri- 16 1 —Lord Stradroke's Ides
tinctly heard the bones of the poor animal crack in sus-
0— 19 o from parliament. Section 10 grants £B,OOO towards es
even their very awkwardnesses,as an old soldier, Sir Tho- Oats, new
table Bequests Bill of last session ; a measure to enable 18 1 Lord Chesterfield's Pam
cession within its terrible embrace. At last the monster
Feed
cries Munro, observed, have peculiar grace and beauty
them to take and enjoy donations and bequests. But 25 1 Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger (takeo)gi
raised its head and fixed two glaring eyes on Capt. C—, in them. That general interest which 'attaches itself to Beans 24 0— 29 a
28 0— 32 0 itself most remarkable, as the journals clearly prove it to having obtained that, they instantly advanced a new 33 —1 Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt (taken)
who in another moment might perchance have been fas- all children, becomes doubly great when it is associated IFTO'isir, American - maim; saying, " You have legalised the institution, and 35 —1 Mr. Gully's Old England (taken)
cinated by their deadly gleam, but with unerring aim he
connected with the original design.
with the children of royalty, about whose movements, in Baltic 2O 0
ow you must maintain it." 40 1 Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster (taken all to
placed two balls in its forehead. The effect was not, the smallest degree, the nation is always anxious to learn. The session commenced on the 22d January, 1795. One more pretext remains, by which the idea of a con- 40 —1 Mr. Gratwicke's Doleful (the Frederica,rds
however, fatal; and the snake, instantly uncoiling itself
FRIDAY. February 14.
Our readers will, therefore be its
to hear something The Maynooth bill was not introduced till the 24th of tract iskept up. . . .
50, . • J,
sometimes lt is said that the British 40 1 —Duke of Richmond's Laird o'Cockpen Big
from its victim, came straight at Captain C—, who, of
developments of c aracter which the Princess
of the
April. By the 24th of March, the supplies comprised in parliament received from the Irish parliament a list of —l Mr. Jaques s Anti-Repealer (taken)
. . .
.i
took to flight, but so thick was the jungle that heAlth- ugh the attendance of dealers was by no mesas nume-
Royal manifests. She is in her fifth year : an affectionate roils, the demand for all descriptions of the above grain was the estimates for the year bad all been voted. On that certain annual grants to charities, &c., and virtually en- 66 1 Mr. Ford's Fusboz (taken)
I gaining on him, &min the noise it made child, but inheriting strongly that wilfulness of disposi. steady at full Monday's quotations In fiine Foreign VN heat a day several bills of supply, including the act of appropri_
gazed to keep up these payments. 66 1 —bit. less Columbus he
s, and therefore -
lion so marked in her great uncle George 111. When she ! fair average business was transacted, and the rates were freely ation, in which the Maynooth grant, if originally intend- Of this pretence Sir Robert Inglis effectually disposed, The little business transacted on the above event ,
, supported. The supply of Harley being more than equal to the ed, would have been included, were all presented to the
could do little more than lisp unformed syllables, she
in the debate of June 23, IE4O. He then said, " I was other result than to give Alarm and Newsmonzer e l'fi'e7
C---- used to be taught to say—" nuzza, for the Queen !" but , wants of the trade, the sale for that article was very dull at previous currencie,. Malt moved off slowly, yet prices were sup- Lord Lieutenant for the royal assent, by the Speaker of content in former years to vote for this grant, though Monday's betting ; both were in great favour, 16 to 1
• JIN.
the little lady, inste,d of shouting " Queen," would al- the House of Commons, at the bar of the House of Lords ' •
• with great repugnance, as a legacy from the parliament s Ides and 20 to 1 agst Pam was laid in one bet, 01,1,0
'he ' ported. Oats, Beans, and Pease were held at previous rates.
On that occasion he addressed his excellency in the name
ways subs'itute " Mamma !" and the more she was told
of Ireland. There were about thirty-six votes for chars- i same, with the addition of Kedger, in another ; 100 u ii
ad instantly twining itsea . of I,
to say "Queen," the more stoutly she adhered to of the Commons, in a speech, for which the house after- ties which the Irish parliament regularly maintained. So twice agst the Miss Whip colt, 35 to 1 (in ponies) In
,zed him, but fortunately at the next su—
SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.
at both his eve. an-' -- of BB ; yet though " Mamma." Not long 3,0 at Windsor, it is reported
1 that the apothecary of tit; 'Royal househeld, we believe The supply of Sl.een exhibited a decided falling off, yet it was wards voted him thanks, and by their order it is inserted
in their • •• Itt R
journa.s. contains no allusion o the Roman long as these votes remained unaltered, I felt that I ought ! Old England, 1000 to 25 asst Ironmaster (all in), 1 ilex
not to resist the vote for this college. But now that par- 20 agst Anti-Repealer, and 1000 to 15 each agst Col°, !u,
•- 'till conti- ,
quite equal to meet the wants of the trade. On the-whole, a
M B visited the The •
ii ir. Brawn, nursery. princess was play- slight improvemen, was noticed in the demand, but pr:ces ruled Catholic education bill, as the Maynooth measure was • .
then called, nor to any fund voted, or to be voted, on ac- hansent has broken through this rule, taking away grants and Fuzbos.
th,
' ing with a piece of paper, which, upon his entering, she about stationary, though they were fully supported.
to Protestant institutions which stood on the same foot- 1 OARS.
caught up and held tightly in her hand. Site accosted The number of Calves were on the ncrease, owing to which count of it.
ing, I feel that every case must stand on its own merits, '
him by saving—" How d'ye do Brown ?" II Her instruc. the Veal trade was heavy, on lower terms. For Pigs we had a On the 24th of April, the Roman Catholic education and t.
, that the areument from precedent, and the idea of a ' 1000 to 10 was betted agst Mr. Gully's Maid of Pile,
1 500 to 10 agst Lord Chesterfields Lady Wildair
tress, Lady Littleton, teld her to say Mr. Brown ; hut steady inquiry at full prices. There were on sale about 2000 hill was brought into the House of Commons, without legacy from a deceased parliament, is gone."
the child would say nothing but" Brown." Me. Brown, shorn Sheep, and 210 Lambs.
the 10th section, which contains a grant of money. It '
as we are informed, inquired what her Royal Highness Per Bibs. to sink the offal. speedily passed a second reading, and that apparently So much, then, for the idea of a national compact con-
s 1 s d. S. d. s. d. I
I cl• •consideration; for when itreached .
without discussion or
was playing with, but she refused to answer—and answer I
fiction.
, Inferior Beasts . 2 .61- •,. 10 Sec
.she could not be made to do, or even to show the piece of 1 Second quality do. 3* 0 3- 4 Coarseon do quality
Second do. 3
:40_—
.3, : the committee, on account of a technical irregularity, it
paper; Lady Littleton's influence failed to make her i Prime lance Oxen. 3 6 3 8 SouthdownWethers 4 2 4 4 had to be withdrawn. Another was introduced, and
do so ; and in the last resort for such fits of wilfulness, ' Prime scone &c... 3 10— 4 2:Do. out of the wool -- speedily
advanced to the same stage. But on the 29th of
her Majesty—who like a genuine English mother really Coarse Calves .... 4 0— 4 8 Large 11, gs
3 0— 3 s April, a very remarkable petition, in the name of the
superintends her own nursery—was sent for. A despatch Small do.
to the Queen on such occasions is the climax of disgrace, I soufecarloori g
iS docc. each.; 8 0-328
-3 2
-Lambs
hI,
and never fails to set matters right. Upon the Queen's p.... 2
negatives the idea that, in the opinion of Roman Catho-
SUPPLY AT MARKEL t
arrival, her Majesty was informed of the refusal to say B
.... Sheep, 26,230.... Calves, 69 Pigs, 313 I lies, the establishment of Maynooth involved any parlia-
casts, 2,555
.. 1
Mr Brown, and to show the plaything. The Princess i I
; mentary engagement to support it, as the means of pro-
,
Royal was put in the corner, where she stood in dudeeon
FRIDAY, February 14. 1 viding an ecclesiastical education for priests. It proves
for some time ;at last, wanting to come out, the little Notwithstanding the supply of Beasts on sate in our market that the design at that time was, to provide a place of
was but moderate. we hove to report a very slow inquiry for !
self-willed girl, with an air of having partly got her owneducation for Roman Catholics, lay as well as ecclesias-
iat description of stock, at prices barely equal to those ob-
tained :
way, crunched up the paper, and said—" Ball ! Ball!tical, and that of a kind, which, if the supposed engage-
Brown on Monday. There were offering 70 Beasts and 20 1
I"
Sheep from Holland, as also 100 Sc is trom Dundee. in fats i ment existed and were binding, would embarrass the pre-
THE ENGLISH PEASANT AND TTIE GAME LAWS.— average condit:on. With Sheep we were scantily suppli d. , sent project O. establishing lay seminaries, .
Here is a strong hale man, with limbs like iron bars, and Prime Old Downs sold freely, other breeds slowly, at late rates. Protestants and Roman Catholics are to be educated in-
,,,,ln_aCs adicFs, the ntutrtinbers of 1,,-hich were rather limited, veryf hiltnlde i discriminately.
quotations sinews like iron wires : and they are willing as strong.
Hoe, or spade, or bill, he can wield right manfully, but buyers'altnfillrepricese. ws weresol
sold
basaltsupported.
at f
rPoimg
on the
This petition was referred to the committee bill,
and was rejected, as the authorities at Maynooth.
.are ex-
not is no work ; or if there is, the pittance paid for it is ..elg each, inclnding their small Calf. Per YB,lbs. to sink the I
1 pressly forbidden by the act to receive within their walls
not sufficient to drive away want. He sits moodily in his offal. Pigs found
to I
any person whose father or himself had professed the Pro-
dreary dwelling; ignorance and wretchedness are tugging.
t
at his heart. lie cannot reason ;he has no' been taught ; LONDON SHARE MARKET.
testan
v religion ; but it shows the universal understanding
the mind in him has not been fostered. But he can feel.
to have been, that the place was intended to be one of
,
There are children about him—hungry, crying children ;
education generally, which Parliament was merely per-
milting to be established and endowed, and which, up to
little wretches, growing up to suffer all he has suffered.
this time, they had not thought even of assisting to
There is th it mother : a weak, worn woman ; ground
down by fasting. There may he sit the live-10,1g day, the endow.
fiends of hunger and of cold gathering the family under
their wings. And he is ignorant—grossly ignorant ; so
gnorant that he cannot comprehend the world's interim

POETRY

FROM THE 'TALENTED PEN OF MRS. MILNER

Chief grace Belo

it will require no small poWert:on;;;TC—'

is bu anon.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S—Teugsv,4I'

bearing a rustling

companied by

a, and saw

tiger, from its colour, a mixture
soon discovered what the mon

course,

found i!,e anim

_ sought shelter in a
, re-loading his gun with all possible expedition.
-,ile followed him by sight or m 1 _ hp

.ther the r

could not judge ; but Captaii. ...as only just pre-
pared for a second discharge when the boa reached the
tree, and —.lf round the stem would
have soon setz... _
_....... shot he
blew i+.-' ' - maces with a char of BB ; yet though

- -
red for a moment stnnn

Leh him, until, by r

it still conti-
eated shots, it
;h till Cap► "
flask.

ed from

C- bad complete

even then did not,
thoned coiled rounc

emptied his po
are to descend.

s the reptile con

nallv, by a muscular
a'ers were not wholly

movement, showing that its vital

extinct.

At length, after some hours' solitary confinement on
his perch, and shouting until he was hoarse for aid, Capt.
C—had the satisfaction to see a number of villagers ar-
rive, by whom the monstrous animal was soon completely
destroyed. Captain C—bad no means of accurately
measuring its length but by a piece of stick, which the
natives said gas a cubit long, and he declared that it
measured upwards of thirty of these, and was much thicker
than one of his own thighs, which were of a make that
would have well become the leather fie-for-shames of any
Life Guardsman ! The bead of the boa was cut off by
his orders, and sent to Mr. Cole, then resident at Mysore,
and its enormous jaws still may possibly be in existence
at the Mysore residency.—'

LATEST BETTING IN Al ANCHESTER',6I
FRIDAY EVEN°. to

FACTORY EDU CATION,

CHESTER CUP. CM'
8 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's lot (offered) He
9 to 1 -- Semiseria (take 10 to 1)
15 1 The Era (taken) rill
15 1 Obs7urity (offered) tin
18 1 Cataract (20 to 1 taken) to
;
25 1 Zanoni (taken) 29.
25 1 St. Lawrence (offered) '47,
25 1 Strathspey (offered) Wr
30 1 Pug (offered)
30 1 Celeste (take 33 t 3 1) eiggot
30 1 Winesour (offered) aw
35 1 Ratan (offered) IN,
35 1 Portrait (offered)
35 1 Extempore (offered) ell,
35 1 Trueboy (40 to 1 taken) car
50 1 Coranna (offered) het
50 1 -- Seaport (offered) Thi
1000 —l5 Little John (offered) hot
1000 —l5 Dr. Husband (offered) Ath-
wllitcar
The only deviation from Tuesday's quotations 'loft'
nifested in the advance of Semiseria to 9to 1 (the bigt, f
terms offered), and The Era (backed at 16 to 1 in P°A ron
and afterwards in scores at a point less) to the secoo:rirlitt
vourite. Offers to bet the odds quoted against Obscuop ,_,
(
;
but none to back her coupled to Semiseria, the Av:i
transaction respecting her, was 6 to 1 being laid °Sotto I
the two, in ponies. Cataract was backed in scoresthany
to 1, Zanoni to £35 at 25 to 1, and Trueboy two or •ef 1
. ou
times in ponies at 40 to 1. The other movementslo dur
selves were unworthy of remark. the
dan
------

TO THOSE WHO ARE EMPLOYED IN FACTORIES IN MAN- I

CHESTER, AND OTHER PARTS OF GREAT BRITAIN.
It is probably known to many of you that a petition
was prepared by me, last spring, with a view to your ad-
vantage, and signed by the great body of clergy in this
parish, by the ministers of various denominations, and
by many of the principal manufacturers and merchants
therein, praying that no child should be admi'ted into any
factory until ten years of age, and able to read fluently.
We were unsuccessful in our attempts to obtain that boon
for you from the legislature, because it a as strongly urged
against us that it was unjust to prevent any individual
under ten from earning anything for his maintenance ;
and a law was passed, enacting that children from eight
to thirteen might work six hours and a half each day in a
factory, producing a certificate of attendance at some
school three hours in each day, and that 2d a week should
be stopped from the wages of each child to pay for that
schooling. The consequence of this has been, that out of
some factories the children under thirteen years of age
have been turned away from their work altogether, through
the dislike of their employers to the new regulations, with
the intention of taking them back, though uneducated,
when they shall have reached the age of 13 ; and, as to
those who are still employed, a portion of their wages is
stopped during five years for schooling, which, it is to be
feared, is in many cases little more than nominal, with-
out any certainty that at the end of that time anything
effectual will have been taught them. It was evident to
me, and to those who have acted with me, that nothing
could be done that would really have the effect of ensuring
education to tho children of the working classes but such
an enactment as should render it the interest of their
employers and of their parents that they should be taught,
and require their actual proficiency in writing and read-
ing to be certified at the end of the five years, during
which their wages are stopped; and not merely their at-
tendance at some place bearing the name of a school. It
was, therefore, my anxious object so to modify the mea-
sure proposed last year that the objection might be re-
moved, without sacrificing that important principle and
its beneficial results.

tadiai Gazette,

The divinity of ti

s called Calvinism,
; it has been that of the Church of Christ

him in his

The activity in the railway share market has been resumed.
Trent Valley shares were last done at 193. Brighton 571, Bk.
Illingham and Gloucester 135, Bristol and Gloucester 59, Bristol
and Exeter 83, Caledonian 73, Cambridge and Lincoln n, Chur-
net Valley 81, Chester and Holyhead 83, Direct Northern 23,
Great Western Halves 98, Lancaster and Carlisle 293, London
and York 7, South Western 793, Lynn and Ely si, Midland ~n,
Newcastle Junction 491 ex div. and ex new, Newcastle and
Berwick Itif, North British 143, Rugby 4, Shrewsbury, Wol-
verhampton. and Dudley 73, South Eastern 41, South Wales
si, Boulogne and An fens 53, Great Northern of France 51,
Orleans and Vierzon 121, Orleans and Bordeaux 6i, Paris and
Rouen 423, Toulouse 21.

On the 6th of May, however, when the bill was in com-
mittee, and when, probably, the Roman Catholic project-
ors of it—having committed the government to the mea-
sure—were beginning to recede from their own engage-
ments to supply the money necessary to execute it, it was
ordered by the house that the committee of the whole
house, to whom it is referred to take into consideration a
bill for the better education of persons professing the
Popish or Roman Catholic religion, be empowered to re-
ceive a clause for applying the sum of £B,OOO for the pur-
pose of education.
In this way, and, probably for this reason, the money
clause was added, and with this clause it passed both
houses, baying gone through the House of Lords bet ween
Saturday, the Bth of May, and the Thursday following.
In the next session, a clause was introduced in the. Act
of Appropriation, granting the sum of £7,000 to the trus-
tees appointed to carry into execution an act passed last
session of Parliament, " for the better education of per-
sons professing the Popish or Roman Catholic Religion,
to enable them to build a seminary, to contain 200 per-
sons, under certain regulations ; " and in the following
session the same trustees got £lO,OOO to enable them to
complete this seminary, A further grant was trade in
1798, but in 1799 nothing whatever was granted. In
1800, the building being then complete, Maynooth is in-
cluded under the head of hospitals and schools; arid in
the Act of Appropriation of sums voted for the service of
the year, receives a grant of £B,OOO towards defraying
charge of the full establishment for one year. In the
same section, £13,000 is granted to the charter schools,
and £9,300 to the Foundling Hospital Institutions, from
which the Parliamentary grants have been long withdrawn,
and even their incorporated property has been confis-
cated and otherwise appropriated.—Their object was to
train up children in the Protestant religion. For more
than half a century preceding 1800, the charter schools
had been the object of the Irish Parliament's especial
bounty. Their useful, practical effects are attested by
Harris, in his history of the county Down, published in
1750. They have been long since suppressed. The ex-
tract we have made from the Lord Lieutenant's speech,
in 95, as well as the Act of Appropriation of 1800, how-
ever, show that if their continuance was the subject of
parliamentary engagement, Maynooth's may have been
so also, but certainly not otherwise.
The Irish parliament was accustomed to aid by grants
of money any object they considered useful.
In the year 1799, for instance, they granted £lOOO to
a'sist the building of the Round Church in Dublin.
£5,000 in aid of the Board of First Fruits, for building
new churches. was one of their annual grants ; and their
grant to the House of Industry was also expressed to be
in aid of charitable contributions. The same mode of
expression is employed in making grants to Maynooth.
There can, indeed, be little doubt that the original grant
was super-added, in 95. when the leading Roman Catho-
lics, who preferred that remarkable petition we have
quoted, were found, as is their habit, to be more liberal in
advice than in money. But now, when the Romish eccle-
siastics are able, as they proved they were last year, to
levy from their flocks more than £2,000 a-week, for pur-
poses which the Pope has pronounced disgraceful to the
Christian name, we do think that if more of them are to
be educated at the public cost, the bounty of parliament
should be measured by their own ; and improving on the
plan of presentments for dispensaries, for every ten shil•
lings paid by government towards the maintenance of
Maynooth, thirty should be furnished by private subsceip-
tion.

tation or nod's gift, when he gave the wild fowls and ani-
mals of the earth for the use of man. Round his cottage
for miles and miles are the squire's preserves ; round him
for miles and miles are perching and nestling pheasants
and partridges; wild things of the earth—not property
like sheep or cows—fed by no particular master, but
ranging from field to field and coppice to coppice. Rich
and nutritious is ti dainty present from God to
man. There th y fluttering almost over the cottage
eaves, when h.! -n beings are starving. There they are
tame in th.

DERBY. 00B)(,;
100 to 10 agst Alarm, and 40 to 1 to a small a"'Norr
agst Ironmaster, were the only investments made %f,ton
10 to 1 to about a pony was laid agst Lancashire r M'
iost
winning the Chester St. Leger and the Oaks. mai

VARIETIES

Why is a Thames boatman like a grave-digger?—Be-
cause he is always pulling the sculls about.

1 acre tn.
:icieusness of their privileges ;—for men
c may die by inches, and yet not dare to seize
upon one single bird to stay the approach of disiolution.
They are tabooed—not by the savages of New Zealand,
but by the civilised of Old England. God's bounty to all
is intercepted by the few. He gave to the rich and to the
poor; the former say to the latter by their laws—" HE
may give, but we shall take care that you do not receive."
The fowls of the air upon which man can feed, are reserved
for wealthy appetites ; the breast of a pheasant must only
be picked up with a silver fork. " Game" has its guard
of honour. Spring-guns and keepers insure its safety.
It feeds unmolested upon the goods of the tottering rack-
•

ALTCAR COURSING MEETING.—FRIPBiII
The Earl of Sefton, and E. G. Hornby, Esq., steo.°"(

" You are quite welcome," as the empty purse said to
the shilling.

It is not the plenty of meet that nourishes, but a good
digestion ; neither is it abundance of wealth that make us
happy, but the discreet use of it.

_ .
THE CuP (Deciding Course)—Mingo beat Heat -t,rieav
r
and won.

THE SEFTON STAKES (Deciding Course)—Briton ' f t:
Hyllus, and won.
,___,4o:lol
THE CROXTETH STAKES (Deciding Course Rio
Rio
reign Queen beat Maria Monk, and won. ~ithil:
THE WEST DERBY STAKES (Deciding Course) Hui)
retary beat Manton, and won. Ste:

" From our private correspondent," as the father said
when he received a letter from his son, who had enlisted
in the army.

With this view a petition has been prepared, and is in
the course of signature in Manchester, to the House of
Commons, praying that, after the space of two years,
" no young person, unless previously admitted to do so,
shall be permitted to work for a longer time in any day
than the time to which children are now restricted by law,
until it shall have been certified by a competent person,
appointed by statute for that purpose, that such young
person can read any part of the New Testament fluently,
and write legibly, and with tolerable correctness." The
effect of this simple enactment will be merely to keep the
young person, who has not been sent to school, or has not
learned what he should have learned in the five years from
eight to thirteen, a little longer in a state of pupilage, till
really and effectually taught; and, as the masters and
parents must equally wish that they should he qualified
to work full time, it will become the interest of employers
to see that real education is furnished, and of parents to
see that it is used. Another petition has been presented
to government, praying it to bring into parliament a bill
to this effect, with such details as may seem best; and
gladly shall we accept any modification of our request
which does not trench upon the principle and invalidate
its effects.

Adhere always rigidly and undeviatingly to the truth ;
but while you express that which is true, express it in a
pleasing manner. Truth is the picture—the manner is.the
frame that displays it to advantage.

Ti e next meeting is fixed for the sth Nov. next

rented farmer ; it gorges and fattens in the midst of star-
vation ; it is a holy consecrated thing—gun•proof, snare-
proof—until a certain day ; and then, when the harvest
has been garnered; after this "game'' has had time to do
all possible mischief to him who erows the G.,1 it ..t.

---------- ifctiii
FOOT RACE.—The long-pending foot race for t!-, s
4ruist,
J
stakes of X5O each, distance one mile, between i'lfhtotn
(the American Deer,) Masefield, (the North Ster!o'grThow
Davis, (the Wild Chicken,) came off on TuesdaYl°7c
noon, at Slough. The road, which had been pre'lefviae-w°
blocked up by the heavy fall of snow of the night
_ab act
was cleared the whole distance by several men el ive
for that purpose. During the preceding day and TO ava
up to the start, the knowing ones were betting .E25:Ye, th'
with plenty of takers. in favour of Masefield. niran,B",
the result was anticipated, from certain hints wb,;,.:""' '
got abroad, long before the race. The sweepstakes 3 An
won by Masefield, pealing Davis by between fift;,,, 7 St.
twenty yards, and Jackson by upwards of fifty yard
a //fork
mile was run by the winner in four minutes
nine seconds. pa_t o
nap , Th,

Among the last batch of jokes from America is a to-
lerably good one :—" A briefla3s barrister ought never to
be blamed, for it is decidedly wrong to abuse a man with-
out a cause."'

pay the rent he owes ; then comes its moment of destruc-
tion—then is it shot down, destroyed wholesale. And for
food ? " Out upon it ;—No !" cries every game-bag-
bearing gentleman in the land ; " fur sport !”—Jerrold's
Shilling Magazine.

Campbell the poet is interred in the same grave with Dr.
Johnston, his coffin being only about two feet from the
surface. So valuable is room in the Poet's Corner of
Westminster Abbey !

notwith

:SPAIN..--it is a land flowing with milk and honey, or,
what is far better, with wine and oil ; abounding in valua-
ble products, of which the export might be vastly increased
by admitting the manufacture of countries possessing.

" FACT FOR TIPPLERS."—A New York paper states
that a man named Neville is in custody for taking " a
DROP too much," namely, for marrying Miss Amelia
Drop whilst he had another wife living.
M. Eugene Flandin has arrived in Paris, bringing with
him upwards of two hundred drawings and plans of the
remarkable architectural remains found on the site of the
ancient Nineveh, amid the ruined palaces of the old As-
syrian kings.

A Olito Eli
TROTTING MATCH FOR X-10.—On Friday, ,e ,C), Chi
between Mr. James's horse Paddy and Mr. II ot,Jar
mare, to trot in harness over twelve miles of road'! mu
mu
off on two miles of measured road at Penge, near Mild: r
The usual and necessary pi elicninaries being adjiltbeflgar`ii
race was commenced, and the first mile accomPllsoolfrran
3 minutes and 32 seconds, and the second mile 00( P,,,
7 minutes and 19 seconds; and at the completion Avi,j Rai
miles, which occupied 14 minutes and 41 secoo" 'SW
mare bad an advantage. They were pulled in and: 0 rte/i
down, and resumed the match, and concluded fou'D tii a-n;
more in 15 minutes and 26 seconds. They were ayic,
pulled up and refreshed, and appeared rather dis 7, err;
the road being exceedingly heavy, and the race " 6- ---e
r
one of strength rather than one of speed. The)" (itiin ‘vi
started, and nn the approach of the tenth m4le thkeeilltZ
of the mare deemed it necessary to relinquish t',:i6l Cot:,
and the horse was driven in the winner, accompli!" Nei
twelve miles of road in 48 minutes and 45 seconas• gary
rove
A.m... .
igptlFi Dan
The mortality of London, and, indeed, of Eagritg Em
nerally, shows a gradual annual decrease, whilst :t rtitn
known that the population increases considerabi/41(44
rates of premium for Life Insurance have beepo CnY.
reduced during the last few years, yet the offices j ,otay.;-
as prosperous as formerly. These facts clearit,a,,,,f Was
strate that some cause, either unknown or unheeu't I kh,
have produced such favourable results. Amoagbs6,
,A.Pani
causes, the increased knowledge of anatomy and t strite
very valuable discoveries in medicine will stand nifr trj 7,7,1)1
minent. The small pox, that annually carried 0.1'04 LA'
sands, has been successfully combatted by vace!ott) Alex
and Gout, that used to claim its numerous viettA ra,,tni
been thoroughly vanquished by Blair's Gout an j ;:relll
matic Pills.—See advt. :, rj:411,1
The Decay of the Teeth-arises from various catl,9,lllqtqa.fa`
principally, it may be attributed to early neglect. ",;(1,02 Nay'
or the use of Tooth Powders containing mineral fl'epeit itaii
deleterious acids, which give a momentary schitpOr •leul
the teeth, while they corrode the enamel ! The i:i °Owl
prevalence of this last cause is too well known tie. ""'h'
comment. To this fact, indeed, is principally to g i
buted the long botanical research, which hanPildir tOi
i
nated by the most felicitous discovery ever gj',"o,,d
world for the preservation of the Teeth, to-0y
Breath, viz. :—ROWLAND'S ODONTO, or PEAstellfo rol
FRICK : this Powder now occupies a distinguisub II
at the Toilets of the Sovereigns and the Nobility toil
out Europe, while the general demand for it at °J.'"
nounces the favour in which it is universally bet
advt.

If you wish for elevate yourselves in the -.elite of your
fellow subjects (and what class of persona can he destitute
of that praiseworthy ambition ?) you must consider fully
the great importance of the measure, which is suggested,
to your interests and respectibility ; and you should come
forward unanimously to support those who are striving
for your good, with the whole exertion of their intellect
and activity. You should either sign the petitions which
are prepared, or originate others amongst yourselves to
the like effect. I have the happiness of knowing that
forty out of one factory have already put their names to
the petitions, and I hope that this will prove the fore-
runner of a general movement to ask for this valuable
boon from the legislature. If it be obtained, in a very
few years there will be scarcely an untaught person in
any of the manufacturing towns; if it be not obtained,
ignorance will continue to stalk around us, to weigh down
your energies, and to keep you from the full knowledge
of the gospel, and the advantages which flow from it.
You have a right to call upon the legislature, which
stops a portion of the wages of the young during five
years of their lives, to see that the money so taken
from them shall be effectually used and not wasted, and
shall produce the beneficial effeAs for the purpose of
obtaining which it is taken from them ; and that can
only be ensured by a certificate that they have learned
and are able to read and write. There are individuals
even now in the very highest positions who have risen
from families as humble as your own, and could not have
o risen without effectual instruction. If you acquire the
facility of writing and reading, advancement, either in
manufactures, or trade, or in any higher branch, is open
to you. Be, therefore, alive to the importance of educa-
tion, and ask for it. If you ask it earnestly, I am confi-
dent that parliament will grant and government be zealous
to forward it, and that all classes amongst the wealthier
will rejoice in contributing to its support. I wish to
point out to you that, as a body. you cannot be injured
by the proposed enactment. If many young persons
should be found untaught, after the period stated, having
reached thirteen years of age, and therefore only allowed
to work six hours and a half, the demand for persons qua-
lified to work full time must raise their wages; and thus,
if the younger brother should earn less, the elder would
earn more, and in the meantime the younger would be
taught. If only a feu, were to be found unqualified, the
inconvenience to them of being allowed to work only six
hours and a half would be insignificant, compared with the
general advantage ; but in truth it is quite certain, that the
desire of all employers that there should be plenty of hands

A gentlern,n of the name of Cook having married, a
Miss Wray, and once falling out with his wife's br, ther,
declared, " of all the fish that maul Wray was the worst."
\%'hen the wife's brother sharply retorted, " if Wray was
bad it was the cook that spoiled it."

The following inscription appears on an American
tombstone :—" Sacred to the remains of Jonathan
Thompson, a pious Christian, and an affectionate husband.
His disconsolate widow continues to carry on the tripe
and trotter business at the same place as before her be-
reavement."

MATHEMATICAL EXAMINATION PAPER.—Q. What
is an eccentric angle ?—A. To fish for salt herrings in
soda water.—Q. If 114 D. represents a member of a force,
required how long will he have a constant area ?—A.
As long as Betty smuggles joints from the kitchen.—
Punch.

Dr. Caldwell, an American writer, on physical educa-
tion, contends that a well-balanced brain contributes to
long life, while a passionate and turbulent one tends much
to abridge it—and. if persons knew how many dangers in
life they escaped by possessing mildness of temper. instead
of the opposite disposition, how eager would be the aim
of all men to cultivate it.

AN OPERATIVE'S Luxuat es.—There is now living,
near Rochdale, a family of factory operatives consisting of
a man, his wife, and one son, whose exp.mditure in to-
bacco and snuff alone is as follows :—Every Saturday
night, the wife provides twelve ounces of tobacco and four
ounces of Scotch snuff, which amounts to the sum of
4s. 3d. It often happens that the wife has to purchase
more by the Thursday evening or Friday morning.

As it is, we think we have fully proved that whatever
claims Maynooth may have on the bounty of parliament,
she has none that ;an be tairly referred to express or im-
plied engagement ; and we do trust, therefore, that Lord
Sandon and other English Conservatives, will not make a
non-existing Irish Protestant contract the ground of aug-
menting a grant which has hitherto done nothing but raise
up men who devote their spiritual influence and their se-
cular energies to denude Protestantism of its temporal
establishment in this country altogether.
If Sir Robert Peel be bound to continue and augment
the Maynooth grant, we think we have done something to
free, at least, his successor from the burden which the
present premier may yet feel too heavy even for him to
carry.

Four or five hundred roman medals, of the largest size
and in perfect preservation, have been found by a labourer
in the ruins of the old chateau of Larcy le Chatet
(Nievre). They are for the most part of the dates of
Adrian, Sabinus, Marcus Aurelius, lEtius, Antonius,
Faustina, Venus Lurillus, Commodus, Crispinus, and
Septimus Severna, going back to 117 of the Christian, or
192 of the Roman era.—Galignani.
There has just been discovered at Aucb, in the Plaine
de Gers, near the sight of the ancient Augusta, a beauti-
ful specimen of the Roman mosaic. The part already
cleared measures about four feet in length, by about
two feet eight inches in width. It is of the Gallo-Roman
epoch, so remarkable for the purity of its design.—lbid.