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modern civilisation. But there is this difference between
the chances of such a system, and the odds in favour of
infidelity. Unbelief soars in the open day, like the hawk,
and pounces on its prey in the full meridian blaze of noon :
Jesuitism hunts in the dark, adopts the nocturnal habits
of the owl, and creeps, under cover of a kindred opacity,
on the vermin of its predilection. (The attitude and ex-
quisite pantomime with which this and other passages
were delivered, is of course lost to the reader.)
If they cramped the wholesome development of the
mind, they were no less disastrously skilled in circumscrib-
ing within that of the human heart, and under the pressure
of their educational thraldom, were withered not only the
sacred family affections, but the more ennobling impulses
of patriotism and national independence. It was a pomp-
ous boast of their apologists, that the generation which
grew up during their discontinuance, from 1772 to 17.90,
was thereby left to achieve all the atrocities of the French
revolution. This statement he canvassed in its various
bearings. The chief actors in the more disreputable scenes
of that period were of an age to represent the youth of
their colleges ; but the glowing energies and vigorous re-
solves which shattered the old superstructure of social
decrepitude, and demolished despotism throughout the
land it had cumbered for ages, could never have been the
work of Jesuitical training, fit but to suckle slaves ; while
the wretched poltroons who fled into emigration, and
made no stand for their rotten cause, were mostly of an
age to have been scholars of the Jesuits.

A COSTLY Nasr.—A farmer, not far from Leicester,
missed two X 5 notes from a box in which he had placed
them, about a fortnight since, and a few days afterwards
discovered a mouse-hole near the spot. On taking up
two or three bricks he found both the notes, but in a
great number of pieces. By a careful arrangement of the
fragments he was enabled to get them cashed.—Leicester
Journal.

Mrs: Jerningham, who resides in Plymouth, is a mem-
ber of one of the most rigid Roman Catholic families in
the country, and sister-in-law of the Lady Abbess of" the
Lodge," at Taunton, has abjured Romaniem, and joined
the Church of -England. Two of this lady's children have
been removed from her by her husband, and placed in
the Taunton nunnery. The case will be brought under
the notice of parliament.
The Times, yesterday week, contained, with the sup-
plement, no less than 1988 advertisements ; of which the
supplement alone contained 1489. We are within the
mark when we take the average charge for these at Bs. 6d.
each. The sum received by the treasurer of the leading
journal for the whole 1988 advertisements would, at this
rate of charge, be £845 3s. ; of which he would have to
pay to the revenue £149 2s.
MR. BATTY'S ELEPHANTS.—One of the greatest no-
velties ever seen in England is now in the possessian of
Mr. W. Batty, of Astley's Amphitheatre, having been
landed in the East India Docks the other day, viz., an
elephant and its infant sucking at the breast. The mother
is an immense animal, stands about 10 feet high, and the
infant three feet in height. The animals are exported
from Mazapore, East Indies, about 700 miles up the
country, and were bought from the natives.
THE TRIPLE SUICIDE.—In the case of the three young
girls, servants, at Ma-ch, nho drank laudanum and went
out into the fields to die, the inquest has been brought to
a conclusion. The jury found a verdict of felo de se in
the ca-e of Sutton, and that the other two had aided and
abetted in the crime. The girl Roberts, on being asked
what she had to say, replied, nothing, but that deceased
and she were partners, and she loved her so that she
thought she would like to die with her. The two girls
were committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder.
ILLUMINATING CLOCKS.—The Lancaster Gazette
states that the Messrs. Blaylock and Co., of Carlisle,
have invented a new moae of lighting up turret-clock
faces with gas-light, on a principle which is perfectly self-
regulating. The clock lights itself at the proper hour,
namely, at sunset each night, and nearly extinguishes
itself at sunrise each morning, and follows the setting
and rising of the sun from the shortest to the longest day,
and again from the longest to the shortest day, with only
a half-yearly adjustment.
In the course of a fire, yesterday week, on Bread-hill,
London, three women in the fourth story were for a short
time in an appalling situation. Two •,f them rushed over
the flaming staircase, and fortunately reached the street.
The other sought to escape by the roof, but was unable.
Suddenly, when her destruction appeared inevitable, she
sprang to a hoisting rope, and, after clinging to it for a
moment, slid down safely, to the great joy of all the
spectators. Her hands were sadly excoriated by the
descent.

It were absurd to expect from the tuition of men, ac-
complices in all the tyrannies, and participators in all the
oppressions that ever crushed the hopes of mankind, the
daring and the determination requisite to rid the world of
the fuut and fraudulent imposition. Pedagogues of that
sort may produce partisans for Don Carlos or the Portu-
guese Caligula, Don Miguel ; they may try and teach the
youth of the Two Sicilies to obey Ferdinand and Naples,
as they equally sought to uphold that other sanguinary
idiot, Ferdinand of Spain. But constitutional monarchy
is on its march ; whether in that form, or in republican
plenitude, the approach of freedom is inevitable ; and the
co-existence of Jesuitism with its emancipating advent
being found utterly impossible, that sinister society is

doomed.
Talk of consciracies and secret associations, in the face
of the permanent gang of hidden plotters against all in-
dividual and national security. The foul term cannot
touch us. For the recovery of its existence a nation
needs not, does not conspire. The hour of deliverance
comes round in the appointed course of providential wis-
dom, and the breath of the people is the hurricane that
sweeps in purifying bias s over the face of the land. He
(the father) never joined any secret society in his youth,
nor would he now in the maturity of his manhood. He
knew his fellow exiles from Italy, and could vouch:for the
feelings of friendly reverence they bore to the institu-
tions of this glorious country, which had sheltered them
from the hand of oppression. (Cheers ) He proceeded
to stigmatise the Jesuit conspirators at Friburg and Lti-
cerne. Nor was Switzerland the only free nation marked
out for their intrigues and malignant activity. The object
and obvious drift of the late aggressive and insulting mea-
sures of he Pope revealed the same agency busily engaged
in accomplishing here a similar work of discord. Into
the details of this often thrashed argument he entered
with all the freshness of indet.tigable indignat'on. and
wielded the flail of his unflagging eloquence, by belabour-
ing alternately the Austrian envoy at Rome (Prince Es-
terhazy) and the Westminster cardinal. whose alliance
offensive and defensive with the Jesuits, he exhibited as a
bargain mutually advantageous to the contracting parties,
however disastrous to the interests of true relig►on, the
peace of the country, and the integrity of the empire.

TYPOGRAPHICAL. CURIOSITY.—We have been shown
a very interesting specimen of typographical ingenuity—
an architectural elevation of the Free Church College on
the Mound. composed wholly of moveable types. The
effect, at a little distance, is that of a wood-cut or engrav-
ing, and, considering the nature of the materials, is really
wonderful. The work, which is to be forwarded to the
Great Exhibition, is the production of Mr. R. Romsey, a
compositor, in one of the newspaper offices in town.—
Edinburgh Courant.
Captain George Symes, late of the Madras Artillery,
met his death on Monday last in a lamentable manner.
About. 11 o'clock at night two men behaved very violently
outside his house, which abutted on the high road between
Axminster and Lyme Regis. The captain descended and
requested the men to depart, when they threw him down,
knelt on his chest; and beat him fearfully with a stick
about the head. From the effects of these injuries he
never recovered, but remained insensiole till death re-
leased him from his sufferings. The ruffians are in cus-
tody.

Crntral

A new orange lodge was to be opened at Shrewsbury

yesterday.

Steam- communication bas been opened between Hull

and Riga

Government has decided on making Deptford and Ply-
mouth the emigration depots. The value of such a favor
to a town will average about £200,000 per annum.
A mtchanic died in Guy's Hospital, on Friday, from
Lock jaw. The only thing that could be administered to
him was a little brandy and water.
John Isaacs, the captain of the Frimley gang of rob-
bers, was on Thursday committed for trial for the bur-
glary at Uckfield.
About £5OO in cash has been stolen from the store-
keeper's office of the Royal gunpowder works near
Waltham Abbey. Three men are in custody.
At Edinburgh, last week. a servant on the railway was
knocked down by a train, w hick, passing over him, sepa-
rated his head from his body in an instant of time.
GREAT EXHIBITION.-0595 .packages had been received
up to the 12th inst. A party of 3,600 French National
Guards are expected to arrive on the 30th instant. _ •

The Leeds Mercury. of Saturday last, in an article eulo-
gistic of Rotherham College, proclaims, in reference to
that institut'on—which has "existed nearly one hundred
years," and which has ranked among its tutors " some
of the most eminent divines and scholars of which the
century can boast"—that, " nevertheless, it has partaken
of the common lot of voluntarily supported institutions,
and has often st►uggled for existence. Having at one
time been buoyant in prosperity, it has, after a while,
fallen into poverty, and has been threatened with extinc-
tion." . .

THE POISONING IN NOTTS.—The coroner's inquest on
the body of Joseph Barber, who is supposed to have been
poisoned by his wife and her paramour, at Eastwood,
Notts, was resumed on Tuesday and Wednesday last.
After hearing a great deal of evidence, the jury returned
a verdict, That the deceased Joseph Barber has died in
consequence of a nose of arsenic administered to him, and
that this jury believe that such arsenic was administered
by Sarah Barber and Robert Ingram." The two pri-
soners were forthwith committed to take their trial on
the charge of wilful murder at the next Nottinghamshire

FORTUNATE DISCOVERY AT HOLYWELL.—As a poor
labouring man was digging his garden, in the neighbour-
hood of Greenfield, on Friday, the 11th instant. he dis-
covered at a few inches below the surface seven guineas
of the reign of George 111., and also two massive gold
rings of a most beautiful antique description, one of
which bears the following inscription :—" My heart joins
with you." As may naturally be expected, digging was
renewed with vigour, but only two more guineas were
discovered. Twenty-two shillings were offered for each
of the guineas by several tradesmen in Holywell, but it
was refused, as the fortunate finder expected he would
receive more for them in Liverpool, whither he has gone,
but we have not yet been acquainted as to his success.—
Chester Chronicle.
CLAIMANTS FOR THE DIINMOW FLITCH.—It is un-
derstood that in this year there is a bong fide claim for
the ancient guerdon of the gammon of bacon. It is no
secret that the applicants, who have now been blessed in
the bonds of matrimony about 14 months, are resident at
Felsted, the husband having a small farm of his own
there, and a man of some property. It is somewhat re-
markable that it is just now a century ago since the bacon
was obtained by John Shakeshaft and his wife, in 1751,
and the only real aspirants to the honour since were a
couple from Reading, Berks, about 17 years ago, when
they took up their residence for that purpose at the Sara-
cen's Head Inn, Dunmow, for three weeks, but from some
cause not very well known, their object was rather sud-
denly abandoned.—Bury Post.
IRON SHIPBUILDING.—The iron ship building trade
continues to flourish here. Mr. Thomas Toward, of St.
Peter's, launched a most beautiful iron screw vessel for
the Sidney trade on Wednesday afternoon. The owner,
H. G. Smith, Esq., was present with a large party, besides
many hundreds collected to witness the scene. The day
being fine, and many gay flags flying, guns firing, and the
presence of a great number of ladies, rendered the launch
one of the most gay and animated scenes imaginable.
The vessel, which was named the Keera, glided beauti-
fully into the water amidst the deafening cheers of the
assembled crowd. Messrs. R. Stephenson and Co., of
this town, supply the engines to her, and altogether there
is no doubt that this vessel will prove that nowhere can
better or cheaper iron vessels be built than on the Tyne.—
Newcastle Journal.

The Times reports a meeting of " fraternal democrats"
on Tuesday, at the Literary Institution, John-street,
Tottenham-court-road, to sympathise with the foreign
refugees. The chairman denounced the " man known by
the contemptible title of Lord Lyndhurst" as having
risen, with others he could name, to rank by no very
honourable means. A man named Petty said, " the fault
of the refugees was over humanity. If they had been
more judicious they would have exterminated their ene-
mies," advice which he fervently hoped, next time, the
" friends of liberty" would attend to rather than " spare
their oppressors.' Mr. Harney denounced " that incar-
nation of villany, Metternich," " the blood-stained King
of Naples," the " base scoundrel, Sir James Graham."
the " pot-bellied bourgeoise readers of the Times." He
" threatened that if the Government ejected these virtu-
ous refugees, they would ret4liate on such men as the
Austrian and Russian ambassadors. If the alien law
were carried, he advised every one of them to take one of
their foreign brethren to their own homes, and only suc-
cumb to force. (Cheers.) He then continued in support
of universal brotherhood ; they agreed with Paine ' that
the world was their country.' It was said these refugees
were conspiring against their Governments. It was right
and their duty to do so. They also conspired, they ex-
pressed their sympathies with them, and when the time
came when the people had their own rgain they would
conspire in deeds."
DISGRACEFUL IGNORANCE.—A few days since a man
named Newmarch was brought up at 'Worship-street
Police-court, London, charged with a brutal assault upon
his wife and daughter. The face of the wife was terribly
contused, one of the eyes of the daughter, a little girl
between eight and nine, was both bruised and swollen,
and it was evident that they had been. most shamefully
treated but upon the daughter being questioned by the
magistrate, she answered that she had never been sent to
school, never went to church or chapel, had never been
taught the difference between good and evil, and, in fact,
had not the slightest idea of the consequences of speaking
falsely. The magistrate could not therefore receive her
testimony, upon which the wife said that her eldest son
could speak to the same circumstances, and the son, a
grown up young mart of 22, was therefore placed in the
box to give evidence ; but upon his being questioned in a
similar manner, he gave precisely the same answers, and
the wife herself acknowledged that the whole of her family
had been brought up in the same way, although her hus-
band earned very good wages, and that she herself had
never attended divine service during the whole time she
had been married. The magistrate severely. reprehended
the woman's conduct, and, saying that it was one of the
most disgraceful instances of utter neglect and careless-
ness on the part of a wife anti mother he ever knew,
ordered the husband to find bail for his appearance on
that day fortnight, and directed the woman to take her
son and daughter to. the minister of her parish without
loss of time, that they might in the interval acquire some
notion of their duties to themselves and society, and be
fit, when the man was again brought up, to give such
evidence as would be likely to render him amenable to
justice: • • • -
EXECUTION 01. THE FRIMLEY MURDERERS.—OnWed-
nesday, Levi Harwood and Samuel Jones were executed
at Horsmonger-lane gaol, for the murder of the Rev. G.
Holiest at Frimley. On the previous night. Jones made
a full confession of the (teed to the chaplain, declaring
every word that Hiram Smith had said to be true : " There
were in the room at the time of the murder, Smith, myself,
and Levi Harwood. I held Mrs. Holiest round the waist.
had a pistol in my hand, and might have shot her, but
never intended to do it. Levi Harwood was the man that
rushed at Mr. Holiest. I believe that Mr. Holiest was
stooping to pick up the poker, and that Levi Harwood
was the man who fired the shot." He said with emphasis,
"I am certain of that. The account given by Sm ith of
what took. place in the room is quite true ; and Mrs. Hol-
iest is mistaken in swearing as to her belief thatit was
Levi Harwood who held her, as it was me. The bag of
money was taken from a chest of drawers, or a little table
down stairs. On the Sund-y night, when at the Rose
and Crown, I took the penny token (that which was sworn
to on the trial as having been taken from Frimley par-
sonage.)" It was not till the morning of the execution
that Levi Harwood admitted the truth of what Jones had
said, adding, however, "What was done was never in-
' tended to be done." Before the last. service, Jones ex-
pressed a hope that Harwood did not feel displeased at
his making any confession. Harwood said, " Not the
least. ; I forgive everybody." The two men shook hands.
Both were in tears. At the foot of the gallows they trem-
bled, and were much moved. The chaplain distinctly
asked each prisoner if he felt any comforting assurance
that he would find mercy at the hands of the Redeemer;
and they immediately, and apparently with firmne-s. said
they did. They put out their hands as well as they could
to all around them, saying that they had been kindly
treated, and then mounted the scaffold. They struggled
so hard after the bolt was withdrawn, that the hangman
had to-pull their legs. Hiram Smith, the informer, is still
in prison, and was present at the condemned sermon, ap-
peering care-worn and dejected, and at that time in far
more mental pain than his associates. Samuel Harwood
who is in charge for the Ucfikeld burglary, on the evidence
of Ja mes Hamilton , an approver, has been again remanded ;
another man, John Isaacs, said to have connected with
the Uckfield, Frimlev, and several other burglaries, having
been apprehended at Frome.
. .

The Franklie:steam-ship, Captain Wooton, arrived in
Cowes Roads on Friday, from New York. She left that
port on the sth instant. -
A coal merchant was, on. Saturday, fined £lO5 for sup-
plying 25 tons of coats at Buckingham Palace under
weight.
Paul Robinson, of Chesterfield, a well known politician
of Conservative principles, was found drowned on Satur- assizes.
day night in the canal, near Lockford Works. The Farelereet ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, a new sewer,
deceased, it is believed, fell into the canal. near Westminster-bridge, fell in, and buried in the fallen
At a recent meeting of the shipowners and merchants earth three workmen. Immediately on the first alarm
of Sunderland, it was resolved to try the question of the subsiding, the labourers set to work to extricate their
right of the Newcastle Trinity-house to levy in that port companions, when a second fall of earth took place ;
the primage dues. fortunately, a small aperture was left, through which the
A Melbourne lady, in a• clairvoyant state, declares that . men could breathe, and their voices be heard. Brandy
Sir John Franklin has reached England in safety, and was let through it to them, and other refreshments.
that there were great rejoicings in consequence.—Mel-
I After three hours' incessant labour, two were extricated
bourne Argus. insensible, but still alive ; and about nine o'clock the
IMPORTATION OF GUANO.—In 1849 the total quantity third was got out. They were all taken to Westminster
was 83,438 tons, and in 1850 it increased to 116,926 tons, Hospital, where they lie, and we are sorry to say, without
while in the first two months of the present year it has much hope of recovery. '
been 73,986. • Tie two men hung for the Frimley murder are two of
The mate of a vessel named the Amity, of South Shields, a gang of 17, which has for a long time infested tae court-
was "tarred and feathered" on Wednesday night, for ties of Surrey and Sussex. Some members of this daring
having signed articles for
.lower wages than the amount body of criminals (and it is said one or both of the men
fixed by the Seaman's Association. who have just suffered death were of the number) are
The bullion in both departments of Abe Bank of Eng- believed to have seen concerned in-the murder of Mr.
land has decreased from £13.906,656 to £13,589,536, Griffiths, the brewer, near Brighton. It is sati.tfactory
being a difference £317,120. The paper in actual circu- I to thick that a complete sweep has been made of this
Wien has increased from, £20,161,017 to £21,039,574, band of desperadoes. Seven have been transported—
being a difference of £878,557. I three for 15 years; two have been executed. The lest
The Douglases, whose swindling doings we noticed last , are all in safe custody, and waiting to take their trial on
week, were found f.,,ui ty, at the Central Criminal Court, 1 charges which, it is hoped and believed, will clear the
London, on Tuesday, and sentenced, the father to twelve country of them entirely.
months' imprisonment, and the sons to three months SALE OF THE CABINET CYCLOP/EDIA.—On Wanes-
each.—[A very light punishment.l day, Mr. Hodgson offered for sale the stock, copyright,
Lowestoft has been selected us a royal mail packet sty- stereotype. steel plates, and woodcuts of this extensive
work, projected by Dr. Lardner, and carried out with the
Lion, under special contract with the Danish government.
This is the shortest route to Copenhagen, Stockholm, and assistance of Sir James Macintosh, Sir John Herschell,
the northern ports of Denmark and Sweden, the distance Sir Walter Scott, Bishop Thirlwall, and many other emi-
being accomplished in 27 hours. nent men. The series included copyrights, in sixty
On Tuesday Mr. Duncan Brown, cloth merchant, printed works, for which, and an unpublished manuscript
by Mr. T. Roscoe, £40,000 had been paid. The stock
Greenock, having gone into his bath room to take a tepid
consisted of 46,000 volumes. A considerable number of
bath, and his long continuance alarming his family, on
publishers were present. The property was put up in one
Mrs. Brown entering the room she found her husband
drowned in the bath, and the water overflowing. lot, and the first offer was £3,000; the biddings were
A few days ago one of the men erupt eyed at the Coven- continued with spirit until the sum of £9,500 was attained,
at which pri e it was knocked down to Messrs. Longman.
dish-bridge Brewery, near Burton-on-Trent, fell into the
vat which was filled with porter, and was drowned. The NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. HUDDLESTON, THE BAR-
proprietor of the brewery deemed it right to run off the RISTER.—Mr. Huddleston, the eminent barrister, and his
contents of the vat, valued at from £l5O to £2OO, into the fellow travellers by the express train to London from
Trent. Gloucester, the other day, experienced a narrow escape.
The Inverness Courier says that a slight but distinct Mr. Huddleston was in the last carriage of the train, one
shock of an earthquake was felt on Saturday evening of the wheels of which becoming detached from the axle,
week, at the western end of the Great Caledonian Glen, forced its way through the flooring and set the carriage
and at the mouth of Glencoe. It seems to have been felt on fire. Mr. Huddleston immediately opened the door,
very distinctly on the banks of Loch Arkaig, opening up and supporting himself outside the carriage, by shouting
from Loclt-Lochy. and waving his cloak managed to attract the attention of -- ei
CHILD MURDERS.—TWO females, Sarah Collins and the guard, who, communicating with the driver, the train A special meeting of the Eastern Counties Railway
Mary .Ann Coster; the latter a *pretty-looking girl, 20 was brought to a stand still, and the learned gentleman Company was held on Thursday, in London, when the
years of age, were committed for trial at the Marylebone and his companions in the carriage were relieved from the directors were authorised to carry into effect an agreement
and Clerkenwell Police-offices, for the murder of their state of peril and alarm in which the occurrence had placed with the Newmarket Company for working that line.
them. The Herald learns that the North Western Company,
illegitimate children by drowning, the one in the Regent's
Canal, and the other in a pail of dirty water.
EXTENSIVE ADULTERATION OF CONDIMENTS.—II ap- with the view of showing their desire to carry out the pro-
Osinvous.—One of the magistrates for the North Riding pears that pepper, mustard, arrowroot, &c., are not the posed agreement with the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
s
of Yorkshire has given notice that at the next sessions he only articles deteriorated by dishonest tradesmen and dea- Company, have given instruction for the Stour Valley
will move that, in consequence of the depreciation of lers. A report issued by the Pharmaceutical Society de- line to be completed forthwith.
prices generally, the finance committee should consider scribes a most ingenious and unwarrantable system of WARRINGTON AND ALTRINCHAM RAILWAY BILL.—
whether a reduction of five per cent. or more may not be
adulterating isinglass—an article most extensively used On Tuesday, a committee of the house of commons deci-
madefor fining purposes. and for preparing the luxuries of the tied that the preamble of this bill had been proved ; they
in all the salaries paid by the riding:
wealthy classes. Russian isinglass is the air bladder of the also intimated that they would not grant compulsory run-
The Duke of Wellington once left his umbrella, by sturgeon, dried. rolled into thin sheets, and cut into very ning powers over the Cheshire Junction railway. Tbe
accident, on the stall of a lady of rank, at a fancy fair.
On returning to look for it, he was told that the umbrella fine shreds. The system of adulteration detected consists clauses of the Warrington and Altrincham railway bill are
of rolling out common gelatine in a similar manner, and to be settled after Easter.
had just been sold for twenty-five guineas by the lady,
rolling one sheet of the deleterious matter between two of The Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company
who could not resist the temptation of disposing of so
isinglass. After this process of cutting, the deception is have concluded the series of adjourned special meetings
valuable a relic, for charitable purposes.
very difficult of detection ; but it may be marked by a at Wolverhampton, by virtually affirming the lease of
ADDERS.—On Tuesday Mr. Fraser, of Berriedale.mill,
comparison with a really genuine specimen, or by the dis- their line to the London and North-western Railway
kindly sent us a bottle containing three living serpents of
agreeable gluey flavour of the adulterated article when Company. The Chester Courant says that their decision
the adder species. These reptiles are more numerous at
dissolved in boiling water and tasted without sweetening. leaves open a frightful field of litigation. A town's meet,
Berriedale than in any other part of the country, owing,
The inferior gelatine alluded to is about fifteen-pence per ing is to be held at Wolverhampton, for the purpose of
no douot, to the mildness of climate which prevails in
pound, while the value of isinglass averages eighteen shil- adopting measures to frustrate the intention of the Lon..
that beautiful glen.—John O' Groat Journal. don and North-western Railway Company, to monopolize
THE LADY GODIVA.—The Coventry Herald states fin s.
that, according to the practice of some time past, this
sale ARRIVAL
c D 20. TILEOF
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WroyEasirtnlNDlAte'alimo-YsAhiLDßlCAlyrdteSaTrErAivmed- the sole traffic of that portion of the kingdom.
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being the third year since the last Godiva procession, the,
pageant will bo revived in June next. The undertaking at Southampton on Friday from the West Indies and
is warmly encouraged, and it is intended to carry it into Mexico. The mails were forwarded to the General Post-
rraar- office from Falmouth. The late arrival of this packet
has been occasioned by her detention at St. Thomas's for
several days, waiting for the steamer Great Western,
employed on the Jamaica and Gulf route, and for the
n to he Derwent, employed on the Demerara and Windward
ter, Island station. The irregularity of the 'Derwent was
'o t. caused by the late arrival of the Thames outwards with
the English mails of February 17. The Clyde has expe-
-IRIO.—ACCOruina .‘, ~...., ______
.._... lenced a continued succession of strong easterly gales,
, with a heavy head sea, during the whole of the voyage,
which has occupied 27 days, aad was in consequence
forced to put into Fayal for a supply of fuel. The Clyde
also called at Falmouth to replenish her stock of coals,
as, not having taken on board a large quantity at Fayal,
they became exhausted by the protracted run thence to
Falmouth, which has occupied ten days.
MODERN CIVILIZATION.—It has often furnished mate-
rial for discussion in the philosophical world, whether
communities', in increasing their means of enjoyment,
have not proportionally multiplied their ills; if they have
discovered more curative processes, have they not, in
other directions, increased in.a similar ratio the " ills
that flesh is heir to." If this question cannot be satis-
factorily settled, there is a fact nearly relatgd to it which , arm _ ,a, ~_
claims our attention. It is, that while the personal op- of the district, bad applied to the Parish to advance £5OO
pearance of the majority is fully equal, if not superior, to to meet the census expenses; the amount being repayable
that of our barbarous ancestors, the artificial appliances by government. The committee, however, had decided
for improving it are far betteruntlerstood. The cultiva- this could not be legally done. The Workhouse Com-
tion of the Hair may be cited as an instance in point, mittee reported 1,866 inmates against 1-
,762 last year;
even if the:proposition just advanced should be disputed. during the week there had been 1,033 admissions to the
The immense patronage obtained by OLDRIDGE'S Balm vagrant sheds. A lengthy letter which the governor of
OF COLUMBIA, for strengthening, renovating, and embel- the workhouse had addressed to the chairman of the yes-
lishing the flair, and the admirable effects known to be try, denying certain allegations which he (the governor)
produced by it, and attested to by so many thousands. asserted Mr. Brown had made against him, was read, and
forcib'v illustrate the position above- assumed, and afford an acrimonious discussion resulted therefrom. Mr. John-
the strongest evidence of its correctness.-35. 6d., 65., son gave notice that, at the next meeting, he should move
and lls. per bottle. No other prices are genuine. When for a committee of inquiry. The minutes were confirmed.
you ask for " Oldridge's Balm," never let the shopkeep. After the transaction of some miscellaneous business, it
era persuade you to buy any other article as a substitute, 1 being the last meeting before the annual vestry, Mr.
_ _
Sold by the Proprietors. C. and A. OLDRIDGE, 13, Wel- Dover Brown seconded, a vote of
proposed, and Mr. . •
lington-street North, Strand, London ; and by all re, lthanks to the chairman, which was appropriately res.
speotable Chemists, Perfumers, and Stationers, 1 paraded tot

RAILWAI' AFFAIRS.

ALUABLE

lay a woman named

WGlverhanipton, on a
charge of mewing a quantity of silk handkerchiefs, know-
- - stolen, ancl on the house of her husband,
een searched, five silk handker-
lost, were found sewn up in her

a railway porter, having t
I chiefs' similar to thos,-

AN ELDERLY ...cording to the returns given
in to the officer who collected the census papers, there arc
three parties in the village of Bailoch of Culloden, a hus-
band, a wife, and a wife's sister, whose joint ages amount
to no less a figure than 1,415 years. The phenomenon is
explained in this way, the good man put himself down at
506, (meaning fifty and six years,) the wife at 505, (55.)
and the wife's sister at 404; (45.)—Inverness Courier.
There has been a great scandal at one of the west-end
clubs about a card transaction. An hon. baronet. theson
of a late great statesman, was playing at whist, it is said,
for very high stakes, when his partner led a card so coni.
trary to all rule, that the- hon. Bart. threw pp his cards,
declaring that such a lead could,not but be considered as
a wilful attempt to lose the game, and at once took his
name off the books of the club.
A respite for Maria Clarke was received on Thursday,
at the county gaol, Ipswich, tmon whom sentence of death
was passed at the assizes held pt Bury St. Edmund's, in
the early part of the present month, for the murder of ber
illegitimate male child, by burying it alive.. [This pro.
bably arises from the fact that the nigh Sheriff was un-
able to find an executioner, Calcraft being engaged else-

whereon the day fixed for the fatal ceremony.]
THE WAVERLEY COPYRIGHTS.—The whole of the
copyrights. stock, and plates of Sir Walter Scott's works,
as possessed for many years by the late Mr. Robert Ca-
dell, of Edinburgh, have been purchased by Messrs. Adam
and Charles Black, the eminent booksellers, in conjunc-
tion with their relatives, Messrs. Richardson Brothers, of
that city. The sum paid for the copyrights and stock is
said to be £27,000. Mr. Cadell is stated to have paid
for the copyright, between 1828 and 1848, uo less than
Z 7,000.

LOCAL MEETINGS

T
wOINER'S PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of
the members and friends of this association was held on
Wednesday, at the society's rooms, Back Bold-street, to
listen to the addresses of several gentlemen interested in
the improvement of the social and intellectual condition
of the artizan. There was rather a numerous attendance.
Amongst the gentlemen on the platform were Messrs. J.
A. Picton, B. Myers, H. Tindal Atkinson (barrister), Ro-
binson (secretary to the association), who took the chair,
• &c. Mr. Chuck moved the first resolution, which was
couched thus : "That now, having had upwards of one
year's experience of the benefits arising from our associa-
tion, both morally and intellectually, we hereby pledge
ourselves, individually and collectively, to extend the
influence of this association as far as possible, in order
that our fellow-workmen may all unite in one compact
public association." Mr. Picton, Mr. Atkinson, and Mr.
/Ayers then addressed the meeting, and all expressed their
gratification at witnessing the desire manifested by this
numerous body for mental and moral improvement.
SELECT VESTRY.—Tie usual fortnightly meeting of
the vestry was held on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Camp.
bell, presiding. The Finance Committee's proceedings
s) ,wed tbnt Mr. Eckersley, the supeEintendent registrar