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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

A CURIOUS RELIC.—The Prussian Gazelle states that
a young woman of Kaina, who was travelling with her
master's family. found on the road to Bautzen a ring set
in rubies, which had on one side a representation, in
relief, of Christ on the Cross, and on the other the in-
struments of punishment. The ring bears this inscrip-
tion :—" Martino Luther, Caberina V. Boren, die 31
October, 1525." The ring, which is well preserved, is a
perfect model of art.
THE LEGION or frosroua IN FRANCE.—The Univers
states, that "the little value attached by the Government
to the decoration of the Legion of Honour may be seen
by the number conferred in the year 1843 alone, viz.,
grand crosses, 9; great officers, 18 : commanders, 54;
officers, 212 ; knights, 1,439 ; total, 1,732. This number
is more than were granted by Napoleon during the whole
period which elapsed between the victories of Austerlitz
and Wagram—a period which was marked by the conquest
of Prussia and the victories of Jena and Friedland."
A SINGLE MAN WlTHOUTENcmannANcE.—Yester-
day evening," says the Messager, " a person mounted
into a hackney cabriolet stationed on the Boulevard St.
Denis and shook the driver by the arm, who appeared to
be asleep; but it was soon discovered that he was dead.
The Commissary of police baying arrived to ascertain the
cause of the driver's death, it appeared that it was the
result of apoplexy. This man had no family, and on ex-
amining his body the following inscription was found
tatcoed on his arm :—John Joseph, a foundling,abandoned
at the egc of 2 years, on the Place de I'Hotel de Ville in
1806.' John Joseph had no place of dwelling. He
passed 20 hours of the day in his cabriolet, and when he
wished to rest he lay down in his master's stable.

THE CASE OF RICHARD DADD.— It will be in the
recollection of our readers that this unfortunate young
man, who, some months since, in a fit of insanity, mur-
dered his father, near Gravesend, and escaped to France,
was apprehended in that country, on a charge of injuring
a person with whom he travelled in a diligence. For that
offence he was, by the French authorities, committed to
custody for a certain period ; and that period having now
expired, Mr. May, of the K division, has been, by Sir J.
Graham, dispatched to claim his person, and to bring him
over to this country: We understand that he will, on
his arrival, be bronglit to trial, pro furtnii, for the murder,
with a view to his being confind in a lunatic asylum.—
Britannia.

PORT AND TRADE OF lIULL.—The utmost activity
prevails at the docks and wharfs. The Customs' receipts
of the quarter have increased, we understand, in a very
satisfactory manner, and additional hands have been re-
quired in the revenue departments. Another steamer,
the William Dailey, is placed upon the Hull and Elam-
burgh station ; and the Gazelle steamer is to be added to
the numerous list of vessels now sailing between this port
and London. To-morrow, a fine vessel, the Charlotte,
belonging to Messrs. Egginton, departs hence for Bom-
bay, with one of the largest general cargoes that ever was
despatched from Hull. The business on the railway is
greatly on the increase; on Monday, no less than 1,000
bales arrived here from Manchester alone; and one of
the trains, since then, conisted of as many as 106 car-
riages! A luggrze train of 107 waggons, all heavily laden
with goods, left Hull last evening.—Hull Packet.
WILL OF THE EARL OF LONSDALE.—The will of the
late Earl of Lonsdale has ju.t been proved in Doctors'
Commons, by the Right Hon. William, Earl of Lonsdale,
the Hon. Henry Cecil Lowther, sons of the deceased,
and Sir John Beckett. The deceased gives a very large
portion of his property to his wife, who died in his gr.
time. To his cousin, Mary Francis Thompson,Elo
gives her an
but by his codicil he revokes this legacyandh. friend
annuity of £lOOO per annum instead. Tothe
Hon. G. O'Callaghan, £2OOO. By the codicil to his son
Cecil and family (in addition to the benefit they may re-
ceive by the will), £30,000. His lordship observes, "My
domestics and servants are so numerous, that it would be
next to impossible to name them separately ; and desires
his executors to compensate them, leaving the amounts to
their discretion. He desires to be buried at Lowther, in a
"private manner." The will is very long, and dated in
1836. The personal property is sworn under the large
sum of £lOO,OOO.

MR. MACREADY.—The American papers inform us
that Mr. Macready has la'ely closed a brilliant engage-
ment
in New York with the following address to the au-
dience :—" According to my original intention, this even-
ing was to have terminated my theatrical engagements in
America, and the few words which custom exacts on
these occasions, were to have conveyed to you my part-
ing acknowledgements; but I have yielded to influences,
difficult to resist, and have changed my purpose. The
increasing fervour of my audiences—their cordial sympa-
thy with, and liberal appreciation of, my professional
efforts—the kind and friendly attentions so lavishly
heaped on me, and the desire of extending still further
my acquaintance with a country so full of interest to me,
—these are the considerations which have actuated me in
prolonging the term of my visit here. In the latter part
of September I shall have the honour of presenting to
you once more, and I fear for the last time, those charac-
ters of Shakspeare in which you have so repeatedly and
so indulgently welcomed me, and with the close of that
month I shall take my regretful and reluctant leave."
TERRIFIC THUNDER.STO.RM.7On Saturday afternoon
an awful storm of thunder, lightning, and rain burst over
the towns of Rochester and Chatham. About two o'clock,
p.m., the wind, which had been south-west, shifted to
north-east, when the gathering of heavy clouds indicated
the approach of a thunder-storm. At three o'clock the
wind 1)lew a perfect hurricane, and the small craft in the
river Medway were forced to have their sails down, to
prevent their being blown over. Shortly after three
o'clock the storm was at its highest, the rain appearing to
be literally pouring down in so many streams,rather than
falling in rapidly successive drops, together with repeated
flashes of lightning, accompanied with peals of thunder.
When the storm burst forth, upwards of 400 recruits were
on Chatham Lines at drill, and before they could get to
places for shelter they were completely drenched. The
lightning ran about the ranks of the troops with awful
vividness, and produced an effect of stupour on several of
the men. The storm lasted upwards of an hour, and was
accompanied by a severe hail-storm. The torrents of
water that ran in the High-street of Chatham, which lies
low, made parts of the road impassable. The parade
ground at Chatham barracks has suffered considerable
injury from the quantity of water that poured down from
the terrace. The dockyard school for the apprentices
suffered considerably by the storm, the water having
broken the roof of the building. Such a violent storm
has not visited these towns since that awful one in August
last year, when the damage amounted to several thousand
pounds. The storm took the southerly direction, and
when it cleared up the atmosphere was intensely cold.
Tne wheat fields have sustained some injury.

BEET-ROOT SUGAR IN FRANCE.—The Moniteur pub-
lishes a table showing the production and consumption of
beet-root sugar in Prance, and the state of its manufac-
tories at the end of June last, as compared with the cor-
responding period of last year. The number of manu-
factories at the end of the last month was 325; at the
end of June, 1843, it was 384 • a decrease for the present
time of 59. The number of manufactories which had
ceased working in June last, but which retained stocks of
sugar, was 50 ; in 1843, it was 43 ; an increase of 27. The
quantity manu'artured up to June, 1844, was 21,104,523
kilos.; up to June. 1843, it was 29,143,013 kilos.; decrease
1,038.490 kilos. The quaryity delivered for consumption
un to June, 1844, was 28.996.248 kilos. ; up to June,
1843, it was 28,580,981 kilos. ; increase 445,237 kilos.
Tile quantity ia stock at the end ofJune last was 2.970,619
kilos. ; at the end of June, 1843, it was 4,900,696 kilos.;
decrease, 1,924,077 kilos. The duties paid up to the end
of Julie last amounted to 4,869.893 f. ; up to June, 1843,
they were 4,179,344 f. Increase, 690,576 f.
'fur; GoLD DUST DISCOVERY.—A good deal of jocular
gossip is being bandied about here on account of a con-
siderable quantity of glittering sand, which the officers
and seamen of several of the guano ships have brought
home in bags in high hopes that it is gold dust, It was
discovered by a party of sailors on the African coast op..
posite Ichaboe, a few miles inland, and of course Jack
saw that his fortune was made at once, if he bad but as
much spare canvass as would make sufficient bags for the
treasure, and the belief that that part of Africa was once
called the " gold coast " instantly confirmed the fact.
The "golden opportunity" was immediately seized upon,
and every " palm" and " sail-needle " set to work at bag_
making. The ore has actually arrived, and it is r. ported
officially ; and in the import list of last week we see noted
the "Clansman of Glasgow, Peck, from Ichaboe, with
530 tons guano to A. and J. Downie, arid 21 bags supposed
gold ore to the master." Since its appearance here all our
amateur chymists and alchymists have been experiment..
ing on it with crucibles and blowpipes, but unfortunately
none of them having " a philosopher's stone," all the
experiments ended in smoke. However, we learn that
properly qualified chymists from Edinburgh, who pos-
sess the secret, and who have some recollection of the
method used by George Hetiot in assaying the sands he
procured from the Leith shipmaster, are to be in Glasgow
with their entire aparatus, and we wait the result with
considerable anxiety ; meanwhile we may remind them of
the sound orthodoxy of the Scottish proverb—"lt's no a'
good that glitters."—Glasgow Chronicle.
IRREGULAR RESULTS FROM THE APPLICATION OF
GUANO.—There is, however, no doubt, that much has
yet to be learned in this country regarding the proper
manner of, and time fur, applying guano to the land.
Some of our early experimenters, unaware of the burn-
ing nature of this strange substance, incautiously drilled
it in its pure state along with the seed, to the almost
entire destruction of the latter. Subsequent practice,
however, has decided that guano should be well mixed
with ashes, soil, &c., before being passed through the
drill; while another method consists in putting the guano
alone on the land, ploughing it in, then harrowing, so
that it shall be thoroughly commingled with the soil be-
fore the seed be sown. Both these ways may be well
enough, but cannot a hint be t.,ken from the Peruvian
method, and put into practice in Europe ? The Peruvi-
ans apply guano to the grov.ing crops at three different
times : first, as soon, as the seed has germinated ; secondly,
when the plant comes into flower; and, thirdly, when it
is forming its seed ; and after each application the land is
duly irrigated. Now of all the experiments 1 have seen
recorded, not one states that the guano was applied in the
Peruvian manner; and which seems most extraordinary
indeed. Why is this the case? Irrigation might not
often be needed with us, as we so frequently have rain;
but what is there to hinder the application of guano to
the three different stages of the growingcrops? Perhaps
it may be considered too expensive: why not try twice,
then, on a small plot, after the germination and at the
flowering, while the remainder shall have been' guanoed
in the usual way ; and let the result determine the prac-
tice which shall be followed in future?—British Partneri'
Magazine.
FRIGHTFUL ATTEMPT AT MURDER.-011 Thursday
morning, the utmost alarm prevailed in High-street, in
consequence of a report to the effect that a man, named
Hogan, had cut the throats of his three brothers with a
razor. The particulars, we find to be as follow ;--Michael,
John, Patrick, and Jeremiah Hogan (brothers,) shoe-
makers by trade, all resided on the second floor of the
throaudsee., Nsoo.m3e6, t ge h -asi toreeee.twhereere,
, theytbe cacarriedeldest
on
eat
br,
tthheeri r,
became ill, and was attended by a medical gentleman,
who brought him over the attack, at the same time telling
him not to drink, for, in case be did, he would be liable
to relapse into hts. On Wednesday, Hogan did not feel
well, end lie went to his medical adviser, from whom he
procured some medicine. The doctor gave him particular
caution not to take drink after, and to stop at home ; but,
disregarding this advice, the man went out in the evening,
and had some liquor. He was very much excited during
the night ; and, about six o'clock in the morning, while
his brothers were asleep, the wretched man got up, took a
razor, and, approaching the bed where his brothers lay,
he, before they had timeito arrest his murderous intention,
succeeded in inflicting several severe wounds on the necks
of each. They grappled with him ; and, the police being
called, the unfortunate man was, after a dreadful scuffle.
taken into custody. Attention was then turned to the
wounded persons, when it was discovered that Jeremiah
was most severely injured, as the trachea was partially
cut through. Ile, with his brother Patrick, were at once
removed to Stephen's Hospital, where they were instantly
admitted, and every attention paid to them. The wounds
were dressed, examined, &c. The patients were greatly
exhausted from loss of blood, but the medical gentlemen
state that at present it is their opinicn that no vital part
of the neck has been touched.—Dublin Freeman.

MILITARY RIOT AT MANCHESTER.—AO affray of a
most serious character took place, on Friday night, about
eight o'clock, in Deansgate, between a numerous party of
soldiers at presentin barracks in Manchester. Toe tarts are
as follow :—The 53d Regiment of Foot, which has only
last week arrived in Manchester, is under orders for
India, and instructions have been issued from the Horse
Guards that the regiment shall be increased to double the
ordireu-y effective strength of regiments on home service,
and that its numbers shall be raised to 1400 men. In
order that the regiment shall be completed as soon as pos-
sible without tidying to wait for recruits, and the trouble
of drilling them, permission has been given to soldiers in
infantry regiments to volunteer to serve in the 53d, and a
bounty has been promised to every man who shall join the
regiment. The consequence has been that soldiers from
a great many regiments have volunteered, and there are
now in the Salford barracks parties of the 53d, 44th, 41st,
16th, 19th, 27th, 18th, &c. The 88th are generally bet-
ter known by the name of the " Connaught Rangers."
A. night or two ago a party of the Connaught Rangers
were drinking at a place in Jackson's-row, Deansgate,
when a quarrel arose, and, as a matter of course, a fight
took glace. Several of the soldiers took part with their
friend., and the result was that the police were called in
to quell the row. But the matter did not end here. It
was talked over in the barrack-yard, and it was resolved
to have a party fight. The Connaught "boys" armed
themselves with short cudgels, not much unlike " Irish
sprigs," whilst the others had canes and walking-sticks.
The parties came to a collision near the end of Jackson's-
row. On one side were a party of the 88th, whilst on
the other there was a medley of the 19th, 27th, 48th, and
"i3rd Foot. They occupied the whole breadth of the
street for several yards deep, and it was impossible for any
one to go past without the risk of being knocked down.
On information being sent to the Town-hall, it happerlied
very fortunately that the A division of police, of which
Mr. Sawley is the superintendent, were just mustered for
night duty, and Mr. Sawley instantly marched them down
to the scene of the riot. When they got there matters
wore a most alarming aspect. There was a mob of several
thousand people, and upwards of a hundred soldiers fight-
ing. Some. soldiers had been knocked down and sadly
cut, and were bleeding in a frightful manner. The uproar
was tremendous. Forcing his way through the crowd,
Mr. Sawley marched his men into the centre of the
rioters, and, dividing them into separate groups, gave
orders to disperse the soldiers. This was done most
effectively, and without any violence on the part of the
police, who, it is worthy of remark, neither struck a blow
nor were struck in the affray. A number of the rioters
were taken to the barracks, where Mr. Sawley delivered
them into the keeping of the sergeant of the guard, who
immediately sent out pickets to patrol the streets and
clear them of soldiers, who were reeling about making all
sorts of noises, some of them having lost their caps and
stocks, and in a state of beastly intoxication.
THE DEBUT OF MRS. NISBETT.—It is customary with
those struggling members of the theatrical profession who
have young families, to endeavour to make them useful at
as early a period as possible, and thereby win on the
public boards that money which is often too much wanted
at home. Such was• the case with the father of our
heroine ; or, as we should rather say, her mother, who
was a most estimable woman in all her domestic relations,
and fortunately possessed that quality which her gay
husband had not—namely, prudence. Pretty little Louisa
Mordaunt evinced mix% of that precocious talent which
is usually admired in children •, and she studied, was
tutored, and acted a variety of the juvenile characters in
tragedy, comedy, farce, and interlude. After a few years,
we find her at the then Lyceum Theatre, in the Strand,
acting, for some person's benefit, the part of Jane Shore,
and advertised as a sort of theatrical wonder, she being
but ten years of age. " A ten years old Jane Shore I "
Can absurdity go further? yet it was what might be termed
a clever absurdity. The child was clever, the absurdity
was in those who placed her in so unnatural a position ,
and we presume their reply to our assertion will be, like
that of Shakspeare's starving apothecary, " my poverty,
not my will, consented ! " And as John Bull paid for it,
he made no nice distinction between the will and the deed.
About six years after this (during which time she bad
studied hard, and practised incessantly, and in a great
measure contributed to the support of her numerous
family,) Miss Mordaunt made her curtsey as a " woman,"
on the boards of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, under
the management of Mr. Stephen Price. She was in her
sixteenth year, although in personal appearance she might
have passed as a splendid woman of three-and-twenty.
The play selected for her abid was poor Cherry's comedy,
of rather doubtful excellence, "The Soldier's Daughter
in which she sustained the part of the Widow Cheerly.
Much interest had been excited in certain quarters, and
amongst her aristocratic relatives there seemed every in-
clination to promote the prosessional welfare of the young
and dashing dibidante. She was in reality the character
she represented, "The Soldier's Daughter;" and it was
also one exactly snited to her powers, for they had not
then sufficiently developed themselves. She appeared,
and was loudly cheered by a most brilliant house ; and
when the curtain fell upon an epilogue (many lines of
which strongly bore upon her own peculiar situation), her
success as an actress was decided, and her engagement
with the management was secured. Amongst those
e7rl
her aristrocratic relatives who were active in
patronage of her efforts, and visited the green room to
con_ -r
grattilate her on her success, was her aunt, the once splen-
did beauty, Lady Cranstoun.—.Anecdoles of Acitressa

a.ttrrattirt.

POETRY.

FIRST LOVE.

(From Poems and Baaads of Goethe, in Blackwood.)

Oh, who will bring me back the days,
So beautiful, so bright !
Those days \\ hen love first bore my heart
Aloft on pinions fght?
Oh, who will bring me but an hour
Or that de ightful time,
And wake in me again the power
That fired my golden prime?

I nurse my wound in solitude,
1 sigh the livelong day,
And mourn the joys, in wayward mood,
That now are passed away.
Oh, who will bring me back the days
Of that delightful time,
And wake in me again the blaze
That fired my golden prime ?

POETS.

BY T. J. OUSELEY.

Poets are Passion flowers,
That turn where'er the sun
Brightest shines--".he showers
And shadows they will shun ;
Hear s of gold they offer,
At Beauty's chrystal shrine,
Hands of faith they proffer—
Sweet words that sound divine.
Once the sun departed,
The flower its leaves will close,
And the golden-hearted
No more with brightness glows.

Poets are things of earth,
With minds of varied dyes,
Like birds that float to birth
In oriental skies ;
'What though their thoughts ascend,
On light and gorgeous wing,
O'er earth and heaven wend.
And Love, immortal sing?
They are but dust, and all
Their beau' y they enfold,
Like birds 'neatti Lutia's thrall,
Pruning their wings of gold.

Poets are rainbows crowning
Earth with their glorious hues ;
Hearts mid tears are drowning—
Smiles lonely grief subdues.
Words of guile may banish
Young Sorrow from her night;
Smiles, like rainbows, vanish,
Their memory is but bright—
Trust not thin their luring
With light, not heat, they burn,
Pangs are past enduring,
When hope may not return.

Poets have treasures rare;
Their thoughts are silver stars,
Wand'ring, in ambient air,
Beyond heaven's sapphire bars ;
They form from unseen things,
Creations of delight,
And quaff from hidden springs
Nectar ambrosial blight.
Like deep rich laden ships,
Thoughts undulating rise ;
There's music on their lips,
And magic in their eyes.

NOTICES.

Tweddell's Yorkshire Miscellany, No. 1. London :
T. Miller, Newgate-street ; and Brittain, Paternoster-
row. Stokesley : G. Tweddell.

The number before us is the commencement of an
effort to get up in the lovely vale of Cleveland a quarcerly
publication, to be supported by native talent and pa-
tronized by Yorkshire liberality. The editor has com-
menced well; and we are glad to recognise amongst his
contributors several whose names are familiar with the
public, and associated in our own mind with many happy
memories. We cannot but think, however, that he has
found rather too low an estimate of the disposition of his
county to encourage such an effort as he is now making.
Yorkshire could surely afford a shilling a quarter, for
which more matter could bs given, instead of sixpence,
the price of the present number.

The British Farmer's Magazine. London : J. Ridgway,

There is much valuable information of a practical and
scientific character in the present nnmber of this periodical.
We cannot, however, agree with the tone of some of the
articles—that for instance at page 189. If politics are
prohibited at agricultural associations, surely contributors
to such a work as the one before us should shun their dis-
cussion. The paper entitled "Agricultural Facts" is a
valuable one ; and that " On the Southampton Meeting,"
by C. W. Johnson, Esq., possesses the merit of. being
generally interesting to the public as well as to the agri-
culturist.

Simmond's Colonial Magazine. London : Foreign and

Colonial-office, 18, Cornhill.
The number before us contains some valuable and inte-
resting papers, amongst which we may particularize
al Sketches of Cape Breton," an article on the agriculture
of Hindostan, by G. W. Johnson, Esq., continued from
a former number, a graphic description of that unfortu-
nate piece of humbug, the Niger expedition, by R. Mouat,
Esq., late of her Majesty's steamer Albert, and an excel.
lent letter on the sugar duties question, by Dr. Binns.
The most important paper in the numbcr, however, is the
" Information for emigrants and intending settlers, com-
piled from the most recent official sources." The publi-
cation of this article in a cheap form, for distribution, by
the government emigration agents, at our various ports,
would be indeed an effort of true philanthropy towards
those industrious classes of our fellow countrymen who
are yearly transporting their surplus labour, and small
modicum of capital, too often with little discrimination as
to the best market for them, and encountering, as the
result, disappointment and ruin. The extract below we
recommend to the attention of our emigrating friends :

" HINTS TO EMIGRANTS TO THE NORTH AMERICAN
PROVINCES.

"1. Caution toprovide means for subsistence and trans-
port after arrival. —Many emigrants having latterly been
found to rely on public funds for their assistance in the
colonies, they are hereby warned that they have no claim
of right on such fund, and that they should provide them-
selves with sufficient means of their own for their sub-
sistence and conveyance into the interior from the port
where they land.
" 2. Tools. —lt is not generally considered desirable
that agricultural labourers should take out implements of
husbandry, as these can be easily procured in the colo-
nies ; but artisans are recommended to take such tools as
they may possess, if not very bulky.
" 3. Time to arrive in the colony.—The best period is
early in May, so as to be in time to take advantage of the
spring and summer work, and to get settled before the
winter sets in.

" 4. Length of Passage.—The average to Quebec is 46
days, and to the other North American Colonies rather
less : but by the Passengers' Act (5 and 6 Vic., cap. 107)
provisions are required to he laid in for 70 days, to which
period passages are sometimes protracted.
"5. Maintenance on arrival, Sec.—Passengers are en-
titled by law to be maintained on board in the same man-
ner as during the passage for 48 hours after arrival, unless
within that time the ship should quit the port in the pro-
secution of her voyage. The water of the river St.
Lawrence is stated to have a strong tendency to produce
bowel complaints in strangers. It should at first, there-
fore, be drunk as sparingly as possible.
" 6. Colonial Tax on Emigrants.—The only British
Colonies in which a capitation tax is levied in respect of
emigrants, are Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Prince Edward's Island. The tax is one dollar, or ss.
currency (equal to about 4s. 2d. sterling), payable by the
master of the ship on each adult coming from the United
Kingdom, reckoning every person above fourteen, and two
children between seven and fourteen, and three children
under seven years of age, as an adult. No charge is
made on children under one year of age.
" 7. Caution not to refuse good wages.—Until emi-
grants become acquainted with the labour of the country,
their services are of comparatively small value to their
employers. They should, therefore, be careful not to
fall into the common error of refusing reasonable wages
on their first arrival."

SELECTIONS.

THE " MARINE OF THE GUARD'S" STORY.

From Tom Burke of " Ours."
The Blanche' was under orders for St. Domingo,
and was no way anxious to have our company ; and before
a week was over, we were drafted into a small sloop of
war, carrying eight guns, and called the ' Fawn.' She
was bound for England with despatches from Nelson,
of their English admirals they're always talkingabout.
This little craft could sail like the wind, but
she was
crowded with sick and invalided men from some foreign
station, and there was not a place the size of a dog-kennel
on board of her that was not occupied. As for us, we
were only prisoners; and you may think they wern't
very particular about our comforts, and so they ranged us
along under the bulwarks to leeward, for they wouldn't
spoil her sailing trim by suffering us to sit to windward ;
and there we were, drenched to the skin, and shivering
from day to dark.
" Four
_dayswent over in this way, when, on the fifth,
about
eight o'clock in the morning, the look-out an-
nounced several strange sail in sight, and the same instant
we perceived the
d officersr setting the glasses to observe
much,etaark that the sight did not seem to
please thornup,ut more we knew not, for we were
not allowed to standnor look over the bulwarks. The
lieutenant of the watch the commander, and
when he came on deck he ordered the the men to cram on
more sail, and hold her head pointrusi or so off the wind
and, as soon as it was done, the
making'tTgr noise at the cut-
water told the speed she was
ag,:hoieteheeusrela.frolmt
was a fine day, with a fresh breeze, and
the water ; and it was a handsome thing see how the
bent to the gale and rose again, her canvass white as
snow and steady as a board ; and we soon knew from the
er of the officers, and the anxious looks they'd give
ward from time to time, that another vessel was in
chase of the Fawn. Not a man stirred on the deck, save
the lieutenant of the watch, who walked the quarter deck,
with his glass in his hand, now lifting it to his eye, and
now throwing a glance aloft to see how the sails were
drawing.
" She's gaining on us, sir,' cried the boatswain, as he
went aloft to the lieutenant. Shall we ease her off a
little more?

" No, no,' said he impatiently, She's coming
over-hand now. Clear the deck, and prepare for ac-
tion.'
" My heart jumped to my throat as I beard the words;
and waiting until the lieutenant's back was turned, I stole
my eyes above the bulwark, arid beheld the tall masts and
taper spars of a frigate, all covered with canvas, about
two miles astern of us. She was a good sized craft, appa-
rently of thirty-eight guns; but what I liked best about
her was the broad tricolor that fluttered from her mast-
head. Every curl that floated on the breeze whispered
liberty to my heart.
"`You know her,' said the lieutenant, laying his hand
on my shoulder, before I was aware he was behind me.
What is she ?'
" ' Lend me your glass, lieutenant, and perhaps I can
tell you,' said I, and with that he gave the telescope into
my hands, and leaned on the bulwark beside me. Ha !'
said I, as soon as I caught the side of her hull, " I ought
to know her well. I sailed in her for two years and a
half. She's the " Creole," of thirty-eight guns, the fast-
est frigate in our navy. She has six carronades on her
quarter deck, and never goes to sea without three hun-
dred and twenty men.'
" ' If she had three tiers of them we'd not flinch from

her,' said a voice from behind. It was the commander
himself, who was now in full uniform, and wore a belt
with four pistols stuck around it.
"There is no use in denying it, the English prepared
for action like brave fellows, and soon cleared the deck of
everything in the way of the guys, but what use was it.
In less than an hour the " Creole" worked to windward,
and opened a fire from her long guns, to which the other
could make no reply. There they came plumping in,
some into the hull, some splintering through the bulwarks,
and some crashing away through the rigging, and all the
crew could do, was to repair the mischief the distant can-
nonade was making.
`" It's a cowardly way your countrymen come into
action after all,' said the lieutenant, as he watched the
shot hopping and skipping along the water to leeward.
' With four times our strength, they don't bear down and
engage us.'
" As he spoke, a shot cut the peak halyards in two, and
down came the spars with a crash, carrying with it in its
fall that ensign they're so proud of. It was all we could
do, prisoners as we were, not to cheer at this ; but the
faces around us did not encourage us to such a course,
and we sat silently watching them.
" The moment the accident happened, twenty stout fel-
lows were clambering up the rigging, and as many more
engaged to repair the mischief; but suddenly tie com-
mander whispered something to the lieutenant—the men
were called down again, and the craft was let fall off the
wind, trailing the sails and the tangled rigging over her
sides.

"`And the prisoners, sir,' said the lieutenant, at the
close of something I could not hear.
" Send them below,' was the short reply.
"' We cannot, the space between decks is crowded to
suffocation, but here she comes.' And, as he spoke, the
frigate came bearing down, in gallant style, her whole deck
swarming with men.
" Down—men, down'—whispered the lieutenant, and
he dropped on his knee, behind the bulwark, and motioned
to the rest to kneel—and I now perceived that every sailor
had a drawn cutlass in his hand, and pistols in his belt, as
he lay crouching on the deck. The frigate was now so
close, I could hear the commands of the officers on the
quarter-deck, and the word Bas les bra,les,' the signal
to board, passed from mouth to mouth. The next instant
she closed on us, and showed her tall sides, towering
above us.

" ' Now, men,' cried the commander of the Fawn,'
now, forward. All who care to live, there's your ground,'
said he, pointing to the frigate. ' Such as I.ke to die on
a British deck, remain with me.' The boarders sprang
up the side of the • Creole' before the crew could fasten
the grapples. Tonnerre de Dieu, what a moment it was.
The fellows cheered like madmen, as they poured in to
certain death—the lieutenant himself was one of the first
on board, and fell back the same instant, dead upon his
own deck. The struggle was a bloody, but a brief one—
for a few minutes the English pressed our men back, and
gained a footing on the quarter deck, but a murderous fire
from the tops cut them down in numbers, and they now
fought, not for victory, but vengeance.
" Now, captain, now,' screamed a youth, in a lieuten-
ant's uniform, but all covered with blood—and his face
gashed with a cutlass wound, as he leaned over the bul-
wark of the Creole,' and waved his cap in the air.
" • I'm ready,' replied the English commander, and
sprang down the main hatchway, as he spoke, with a pistol
in his hand. At the same instant, a fearful cry burst
forth from the prisoners, for, with the instinct of despair,
they guessed his desperate resolve was to blow up the
vessel. We were tied, wrist to wrist, and the rope run
through the blocks in such a way, as to prevent our mov-
ing more than a few inches—but what will not the fear of
a dreadful death do ? With one unanimous effort we tore
the lashings in pieces, and got free. I was myself the first
at liberty, and sprang towards the Creole.' Alas ! they
had divined the awful doom awaiting us, and were endea.
vouring to shove off at once. Already there were some
ten or twelve feet between the vessels. I rushed forward
to gain the bowsprit, a vague hope of escape suggesting
the effort. As I did so, my eyes caught sight of a book,
which, with his hat, the captain threw from him as he
hastened below. I stooped down, and put it in my bosom
—why, 1 knew not. Life, and life only, was my thought
at that moment. Then, with lightning's speed, I ran
along the deck, and out on the bowsprit. At this instant
the frigate shot ahead of us—l made a leap, the last effort
of despair, and caught theflue of the anchor—a friendly hand
threw me a rope, and dragged me on the deck—as I gained
it, a thunder clap, louder than ten broadsides, broke forth,
and the frigate fell over on one side, as if sir,king—w bile
over her rigging and masts flew spars and timbers, blazing
and burning, amid a black smoke, that filled the air on
every side. Every man about dropped wounded, or ter-
rified, on the deck—where they lay, amid the falling fire
of the wreck, and the terrible carnage. 1 wiped the blood
from my eyes, for 1 was bleeding profusely from a splinter
cut, and looked about me. The deck was a mass of dead
and dying; their piercing cries and groans were mad-
dening to hear. The frigate, however, was flying fast
through the water—the Fawn' was gone !"
" Tele bleu ! he blew her up," said three or four in a
breath.

Paul nodded, and resumed—" Ay, comrades, and the
half-dozen of her crew who stood alive on her quarter-
deck cheered the explosion as if it was a victory ; and one
fellow, as he lay bleeding on the planks, cried out, ' See
there; look if our gay flag is not high above yours, as it
always will be,' and that time he was right, for the spar
that bore it was nigh the clouds."

WELLINGTON AMONG THE PEERS FOR THE FIRST
TIME.—It happened to be my duty, when I was Chancel-
lor. upon the Duke of Wellington's first coming into the

House of Lords, to return him the thlnks of the house
for his great services to his country. lam not aware of
any other instance in the peerage of an individual being,
at his first entrance into the li use. a harm, a viscount,
an earl, a marquis, and a duke, hiving I ad from time to
time each title conferred upon him for distinct services to
his country. 1 made tip: fay t a distinct and
leading topic in my address to him. Individuals of the
royal family may have been introdtu'ed, having by patent
all the dignities of one moment conferred upon them by
royal favour. But this nohlem in rose, from time to time,
from one dignity to another, until lie had every dignity,
each conferred by distinct grAhts. and upon different oc-
casions for different services, and all those rendered to the
country before he could return to it to take his seat after
the grant of the dignities.—Life of Lord Chancellor
Eldon.

EARLY PRINTING PRESSES.—A famous printer, Jodo-
cus Badius Ascensianus, has exhibited his press in the
title-page of a book printed by him in 1498. Up to the
middle of the last century this rude press was in use in
England ; although the press of an ingenious Dutch me-
chanic, Blaew,—in which the pressure was rapidly com-
municated from the screw to the types, and all the parts
of the press were yielding so as to produce a sharp but
not a crushing impression,—was gradually superseding it.
The early printers manufactured their own ink, so that
Caxton had to learn the art of ink-making. The ink was
applied to the types by balls, or dabbers, such as one of
the men holds who is working the press of Badius. Such
dabbers were universally used in printing thirty years
ago. As the ancient weaver was expected to make his
own loom, so, even this short time since, the division of
labour was so imperfectly applied to printing, that the
pressman was expected to make his own balls. A very
rude and nasty process this was. The sheep-skins, called
pelts, were prepared in the printing-office, where the wool
with which they were stuffed was also carded; and these
balls, thus manufactured by a man whose general work
was entirely of a different nature, required the expendi-
ture of at least half an hour's labour every day in a very
disagreeable operation, by which they were kept soft.—
Biography of William Caxton.
VALUE OF SALT AS A MANURE.-At a recent meeting
of the Broomsgrove Farmers' Club, reported in the
British Farmers' Magazine, the following letter was read
from Mr. Mathews, of Park Hall, near Kidderminster,
addressed to Mr. H. F. Fardon :—" If salt were found
only on the shores of South America, and imported here at
the price of guano, I think it would be in more general
use than it is at present. Its value no one attempts to
question, but nevertheless its application is very limited.
My experience of its effects is confined to light soils ; and
upon such, I know of no article so greatly and so gene-
rally beneficial. Its copious use to every description of
stock I regard as indispensible. For turnips, barley,
clover, and wheat, it is equally beneficial, used either as
a top-dressing or worked into and incorporated with the
soil. Nor is it of value only as regards an increase of
produce, for I have always found the quality greatly in]_
proved where it has been used largely. The fold-yard
should have an abundant supply ; it should be applied at
the least once in every week. Upon grass lands, whether
upland pastures or watered meadows, I have found its use
alike advantageous. I have generally applied it in the form
of a compost with soils, but I do not consider this as ne-
cessary. Last spring I dressed a meadow of five acres
with salt and soil, putting on about 30 cwt. per acre of
salt ; and the effect was most convincing both in the hay
crop and aftermath. The sheep and cattle I turned into
it had access to an adjoining meadow, and their preference
for that which had been salted was really ludicrous ; they
could not be induced to leave it when it was as bare as a
common, while the other meadow had abundance of grass
into
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benefit
t
upon it. Pray do the community the good service of
urging the more general use of salt, especially in the rye-
land district. I am satisfied that every man whom you
can prevail upon to adopt its use largely, will ultimately
thank you for the good you confer upon him." These
letters, Mr. Farndon said, afford practical evidence of
try valueit.
Saltof
maysalt,
operateand l
in hopefix farmersiug a
m mou nu i
a lightby land will
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rcarbonateconverted
itself
of manure. ammonia Salt may soda,
valuable consistent carbonateayn
light dry soils by its attraction
for water, and it has the
effect of rendering herbage more palatable to stock.—
British Farmers' Magazine.