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AD LIBITUM ORNAMENTS IN SINGING.—One night,
while Handel was in Dublin, Dubourg having a solo part
in a song, and a close to make, ad libitum, be wandered
about in different keys a great while, and seemed indeed
a little bewildered, and uncertain of his original key ;
but, at length, coming to the shake, which was to ter-
minate this long close, Handel, to the great delight of the
audience, and augmentation of applause, cried out loud
enough to be heard in the most remote parts of the
theatre, " You are welcome home, Mr. Dubourg
Burney's Sketch of the Life of Handel.
RAPID TRANSIT.—An attorney's clerk may steam it to
St. Petersburg and coach it to Moscow, and be back be-
fore the long vacancy is over; aye, though he do Warsaw
and Berlin by the way. The shop boy in Liverpool,
after his Saturday's labours are ended, embarks his
cherished person on boards steamer for I:l;abtlin ; stares
at Nelson' s pillar in Sacville-street, and Wellington's
obelisk in the Phoenix Park ; and, after hearing Paddy's
opera in the cathedral where Swift once presided, and
visiting two or three meeting-houses (the best schools for
flirtation in the world, as is known to e7ery visitor to the

Irish metropolis.) he may re-embark about bed-time--
when he may reckon with tolerable certainty upon being
home in time to open his master's shop,- at the wonted
hour, and soberly assume the cares and duties of the
week.—Modern Traveller.
ANECDOTE OF THE EMPEROR FRANCIS 11. OF AUS-
TRIA.—There is a story told of the Emperor Francis 11.,
which I believe to be perfectly true, and which fully cor-
roborates Prince Metternich's description of the parental
character of that monarch's government. During the
period that the cholera decimated its victims at Vienna,
the emperor walked in the streets. At an obscure portion
of the city he met a funeral. It was evidently that of a
poor and wretched being. There were no friends to sur-
round the bier, and the pauper's funeral was conducted
with rapidity and inconsideration. " Halt V' cried the
emperor ; " I shall follow the remains of the deceased to

the grave." "He was only an obscure person," was the
reply, " and he has died of the cholera." " Never mind
that," retorted the monarch, "he was one of my chil-
dren,—for are you not all my children ?" and the emperor
followed to the grave the remains of the obscurest of his
subjects.—Fraserrs Magazine.
CONSUMPTION OF OUR MANUFACTURES AT HOME
AND ABROAD.—If we compare the proportion purchased
of our manufactures, which is taken off by foreign nations,
for the export to whom we are r.quired to make the sa-
crifice of our domestic agriculture, with what is consumed
by our own native population, whether in the British is-
lands or in our colonies of British descent, the difference
is prodigious, and such as might well, even for their own
sake, make the Anti-corn-law League pause in their ca-
rer of violence. From the tables compiled from Porter's
Parliamentary Tables, and the population of the-different
states to whom we export, taken from Malte Brun and
Balbi, it appears, that while the British population, whe-
ther at home or abroad, consume from £3 to £:s a-head
worth of our manufactures, the foreign nations to whom
we are willing to saczifice the British agriculturists, take
off per head only as many pence. In preferring the one
to the other, therefore, we are, literally speaking, penny
wise and pound foolish.—Blackwood's Magazine.

SCREW PROPELLING.— MR. GRANTHAM'S PLAN.—
The paper by Mr. Grantham on screw propelling, which
was read at the Institution of Civil Enigneers, on the 13th
ultimo, was followed by a discussion on the subject,which
continued for three successive evenings, to the exclusion
nearly of all other business. Mr. Grantham stated on
the second evening that his object was not so much to
point attention to the construction of the vessel which had
been at work in Liverpool, as to illustrate an important
fact which his experiments had brought to his knowledge,
namely, that a propeller might be constructed of such
dimensions that the number of revolutions it would be
required to make to obtain a high velocity, should not
much exceed those of the ordinary paddle-wheel•; whence
he deduces this conclusion, that the usual condensing
marine engine might be applied direct to the propelled
shaft, not requiring the intervention of spur wheels or
bands, which are at present considered by many engineers
as insuperable objections to the general adoption of screw
propelling.--Mechanics' Magazine.

-,171..0NG1NG OF THE IRISH PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION.—
There is no country on the earth in which either educa-
tion, or the desire to procure it, is so much reverenced as
in Ireland. Next to the claims of the priest and school-
master come those of the poor scholar for the respect of
the people. It matters not how poor or how miserable
he may be ; so long as they see him struggling with po-
verty in the prosecution of a purpose so laudable, they
will treat him with attention and kindness. Here there
is no danger of his being sent to the workhouse, commit-
mitted as a vagrant—or passed from parish to parish,
until he reaches his own settlement. Here the humble
lad is not met by the sneer of purse-proud insolence, or
his simple tale answered only by the frown of heartless
contempt. No—no—no. The best bit and sup are
placed before him ; and whilst his poor, but warm-hearted
entertainer an afford only potatoes and salt to his own
half-starved family, he will make a struggle to procure
something better for the poor scholar; " 13ekase he's far
from his own, the el-at/air! An' sure the intintion in him
is good, any how ; the Lord prosper him, an' every one
that has the heart set upon larnin !"—Carleton 's Traits
and Stories.

PRINCE METTERNICH AND THE EMPEROR ALEXAN-
DER.—In the art of penetrating the weak points of his
superiors, and making himself necessary to their frailties,
the Prince de Metternich has shewn himself a roaster. It
was in the midst of revelry during the Congress of Vienna
that the Emperor Alexander grew tired of the fastidious
bacchanalia. When the Prince de Metternich perceived
this, all the gorgeous tournaments, balls, and dinners,
were at once superseded by petites soirees, given by him-
self, at which the Princess de Cl g was the queen.
The emperor was much struck by her beaaty and fascina-
tions, but her family withdrew her from Vienna. The
Prince de Metternich, aware of the influence which her
conversation exercised over the mind of the emperor, still
contrived to secure her presence at Trappau and Laybach,
to neither of which, probably, would his maje.ty have
proceeded but from the expectation of there seeing her.
All was purity and virtue, but the illustrious lady in ques-
tion so spell-bound the monarch that, with her aid, the
Austrian chancellor contrived to drive away ennui from
the monarch, and kept him to the great questions which
had constantly to come before him until all were settled.
—Fraser's Afaja:it.e.

,
IRISH LANDLORDS.—TiIe two greatest faults of '.'""
landlords are these :—ln the first phce, they suffer them-
selves to remain ignorant of their tenantry ; so much so,
indeed, that they frequently deny them access and redress
when the poor people are anxious to acquaint them with
their grievances; for it is usual with landlords to refer
them to those very agents against whose cruelty and
rapacity they are appealing. This is a carte blanche to
the agent to trample upon them if he pleases. In the
next place, Irish landlords too frequently employ ignorant
and needy men to manage their estates ; men who have
no character, no property, or standing in society, beyond
the reputation of being keen, shrewd, and active. These
persons, Sir, make fortunes; and what means can they
have of accumulating wealth, except by cheating either
the landlord or his tenants, or both ? A history of
their conduct would be a black catalogue of dishonesty,
oppression, and treachery. Respectable men, resident on
or near the estate, possessing both character and pro-
perty, should always be selected for this important trust.
But, above all thinrs, the curse of a tenantry is• a per-
centage agent. He racks, and drives, and oppresses,
without consideration either of market or produce, in
order that his receipts way be ample, and his own income
large.—Carleton's Trails and Stories.
Tent EARL 0F OXFORD'S PROCRASTINATION.—Even
Swift's raillery was ineflicatious to root out a besetting
sin entwined with Oxford's nature, and which he had dis-
covered soon after his introduction. " His lordship has
long designed an answer to the letters he received from
the bishops, and he said ten times he would do it to-mor-
row," Many years afterwards he was told himself by the
earl's private secretary;—•' Lord Oxford has received
your letters: he will answer them, but not to-day; 'B/cut
olim',nothing can change him." In the crisis of his fate,
as we learn from the diary, it was just the same. "April
7th, 1813. I dined with the Lord Treasurer, and though
the business I had with him is something against Thurs-
day, when the parliament is to meet, and this is Tuesday,
yet he put it off till to-morrow. I never saw his fel-
low for delay. To-morrow will be a very important day;
all the world will be at Westminster. Lord Treasurer
was as easy as a lamb." Immerged in too much business
for a man of the most exact habits to perform, the time
that could not comprehend unavoidable engagements he
dissipated in such as were superfluous. He used to send
triflinc, verses from the court to the Scriblerus Club, and
would come and talk idly almost every day and night with
them, even when his all was at stake. In private life and
to his friends, he was equally the dupe of the morrow,
nor could ever begin the business of the week on the Mon-
day morning. The simple act of sitting for his picture for
a friend, he delayed till the opportunity was gone. Swift
writes to the Earl, October, 1722, " I have now been ten
years soliciting for your picture, and if I had solicited
you for £l,OOO (I mean of your money, not the public) I
could have prevailed in ten days. Nor did he prevail at
last, for death interfered with the old earl's contemplated
fulfilment of his promise. " I have often heard my Fa-
ther say," his son writes for Wimple, " that he did de-
sign to sit for you, but did not. I shall certainly take care
that you shall have a picture."—Townsend's History of
House of Commons.

HER MAJESTY'S CaowN.—The crown of her present
Majesty was, it is well known, made by Messrs. Rundell
and Bridge. It is composed of hoops of silver, which are
completely covered and concealed by precious stones,
surmounted by a ball covered with small diamonds, having
a Maltese cross of diamonds on the top of it. In the
centre of this cross is a magnificent sapphire. In front of
the crown, above the rim, is another Maltese cross, in the
middle of which is the large unpolished ruby which once
graced the coronet of the chivalrous Black Prince, and,
underneath this, in the circular rim, is another immense
sapphire. The arches inclose a cap of deep purple, or,
rather, blue velvet, and the rim of the crown, at its base,
is clustered with brilliants and ornamented with fleurs-de-
lis and Maltese crosses, equally rich. There are many
other precious gems, emeralds, and rubies, sapphires, and
small clusters of drop pearls of great valve. The follow-
ing estimate of the value of the different jewels contained
in this magnificent diadem has been published
Twenty diamonds round the circle, £l5OO
each
Two large centre diamonds, £2OOO each 4,000
Fifty-four smaller diamonds placed at the
angle of the former
Four crosses, each composed of 25 dia.
monds
Four large diamonds on the tops of the
crosses.. 40,000
Twelve diamonds contained in fleur-de-
lis
Eighteen smaller diamonds contained in
the same.
Pearls, diamonds, &c., on the arches and
crosses • • • • O

12,000

10,000

2,000

10,000

Also one hundred and forty one diamonds 500
Twenty-six diamonds on the upper cross 3,000
Two circles of pearls about the rim.... 300

£111,900
We know not upon what data this statement was made ;
but it will be' observed, that the value of the sapphires
and rubies has not been included, and we have reason to
believe that were it possible to re-collect and again bring
together such precious gems, the estimate just given
would fall much below their intrinsic value. The old
crown made for George 111. weighed upwards of seven
pounds ; but, notwithstanding this gorgeous display of
jewellery, independent of the gold cap, the present crown
only weighs nineteen ounces and ten pennyweights. It
measures seven inches in height from the gold circle to
the upper cross, an& its diameter, at the rim, iafive inches.
This crown is worn by her Majesty whenever she opens
and closes, in person,- the houses of parliament.—Poly-
tecnnic Magazine.

POPULAR IGNORANCE OF THE HISTORY OF THE
LAST FIFTY YEARS.—The part which England took in
the long and mighty struggle against the despotism of de-
mocracy, the efforts of ambition, the injustice and oppres •
p?ti of France towards many lands and people, the
iniquitous tyranny of Napoleon Buonaparte and his satel-
lites and slaves; and the sacrifices that same England
made in behalf of true freedom and European order,.peace,
and justice, have not been• brought sufficiently before the
minds of our young men now advancing from eighteen to
thirty. They have heard of a national debt of eight hun-
dred millions of pounds sterling ; but they have also
" heard that the sum was expended in unjust and unneces-
sary wars." Many of them—tens of thousands—have
vn
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y ge ee tni
eur
an
id ecci er
ci vuel da
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They
LIE r
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have heard
a s
ofobtaineda
HOLY
ALLIANCE, and have been told that Lord Castlereagh and
the Duke of Wellington joined " the Despots of the
North" to make war on the liberties of Germany, Poland,
Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Tens of thou-
sands of our healthy and stalwart young men believe this,
—for no one has set about proving to them the contrary ;
and so LIE SECOND has obtained currency. They have
have been told, that Buonaparte was a deliverer ; that he
had sublime notions of government; that he wished to
emancipate the world ; and that he carried on single-
handed a mighty war against armed sovereigns, in order
eventually to establish the independence and the happi-
ness of the people. Now, if popular books bad been
written in profusion, and circulated cheaply by hundreds
of thousands of copies, giving to the young men of our
epoch facts, documents, undeniable events, all sheering
the contras), LIE THIRD would not now be believed in as
it is by those who are soon about to become the fathers
of the next generation. These same young men have
heard that England would have been richer, happier, and
more respected, provided she had remained neutral from
the very commencement, in the long European struggle
of which I' write, and that our manufacturers would not
now be struggling with closed markets and against high
protecting duties levied by foreign governments on Eng-
lish produce ; and that our garners would have been full,
and our provisions cheap and abundant, and our poor well
employed, and our labouring classes at ease and happy, if
we had not engaged in that " long and ruinous war."
Ana no one has taken the trouble, nay the pleasure, to
shew to them, that but for the conduct England then pur-
sued we should have had no manufacturers at all,—no
allies, no government, or at least no independent one;
and that the Gaul would have printed the mark of his iron
hoof on our soil, and would have subjected our necks to
his iron. yoke. Thus LIE FOURTH has been propagated,
and the history of England,. from 1793 to 1815, has been
backwards, or topsy-turvy, by our now youths of from
eighteen to twenty-five years of age.—Fraser's Mcgazine.
SMOKERS, MALE AND FENT AT.E.—Every body smokes
here man, woman, boy, and girl, almost down• to the
baby just escaped from the cradle ; but still I was not
prepared for the novel spectacle of the very " sylphicles"
themselves strutting about with huge, undisguised, verita-
ble cigars in their mouths, puffing and smoking• like so
many yellow chimney-pots, that they resemble much both
in symmetry and colour. Smoking I detest, as one of
the most unsufferable and nauseous follies of the day.
Strange that men should persist in this offensive habit
that all women with pretensions to a nose at all civilized
unite in condemning; yet custom has inured men to this.
But a woman's smoking was a barbarism I hardly sup-
posed myself destined ever to see; and, certainly, the
first time 1 came plump upon one of my whity-brown at-
tendants, with her wreath on one side, her wings all awry,
sucking, for dear life, at the end of a flaming cigar, my
astonishment and the tobacco smoke together quite took
my breath away ; that was an impression neither time
nor distance will either dim or remove. A full-dressed
sylphide sitting on a painted bank of flowers, where I
first spied her, exhaling the smoke of a coloss,l cigar, and
of a horse-killing strength, with ail the nonchalance
of a veteran smoker, was an outrageous novelty that ab-
sorbed me quite : and whilst I stood gazing there, a call
summoned the volcanic troupe to the stage, and each one
deposited with jealous care her precious weed on bench
and chair, with growling menaces neither to touch nor
taste, and then they betook themselves to their mystic
gambols, meant to charm the love-lorn " Reuben!' to
their fairy haunts. It requires faith in one's art to pre-
serve illusions amid such scenes. The men of all degrees
smoke and smoke everywhere ; in the houses, in the
streets, in the theatres, in the cafes, in the counting-room,
eating, drinking, and truly, I suspect, sleeping, they
smoke—smoke—smoke ! It is odd that strangers don't
scent Havana far out at sea. The gentlemen, however,
are addicted to a small paper cigar, called " cigarito",
containing a small quantity of pulverized tobacco, of the
best flavour, which is by no means offensive. No true
Havanceo even moves a foot without his portable armory
of cigaritos, as indispensable to him as his quiver to the
wild Indian. He may get along comfortably without his
coat, hat, or neckcloth ; but without his cigarito, he could
neither walk, talk, nor even think. The first thing that
follows a salutation of friends, meeting no matter where,
is to pull out their pacquets, light the sociable weed,
another talk ; it gives life to Havaneco, lie opens his
heart and mouth at the same time, and fills up the gaps
of conversation. A cigar ought to be the national em-
blem of Cuba ; certainly, nothing is more completely
identified with them in my mind, and I shall never recall
a friend to memory who will not be enveloped in a soft
haze of tobacco stroke.—Fannt, Elssler at the Havana •
Fraser,

-Es.—Cheap prices of grain are like the
,hams ; the greatest of all blessings is
according as they arise from
-oduction, or magnitude of JO-
4rst we had an example du-
',n, from 1830 to 1835,
-vas practically abo-
'nsequent high
a a period,
-n pled

THE LATE FATAL DUEL.

CHEAP NA,
..imreeta cap iti lit_
the greatest of all es,_
l Faw
• -.de of domestic p.
magnttc..
to the LieutenantH
of his duel with the unfortunate Lieut.-Colone %in
extract
reign impodation. Of the ....
n importation ..
years in suteesaa..
1 wlllows :
jloisn .a account
cT. S.
Mourn oolifi: hasho en3a
origindbde addressed e sms eo. dpf
t.ah Letter tdrt
duel.
Fer
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btAtih
fretysi.ra be
bhic:ebyctet.
ring the five fine'
harvests, and t>. ing detailed, at some length, a transaction in w", aid during which the fof7ig
of e• niversal and unexse was concerned for Colonel Fawcett, in respeowsinot se
a house, he states that the Colonel had said eo.
lished by the abundant
-li fs' scale. This in.,
I,
duty on grain under the she
sscond we had a mem: (Lieutenant Munro) had been very fortunateinbeldso
f deavours to serve him. The Lieutenant then prose
as all the world knows,
rears in successioft,
commercial prosperity. Of the s
course of which him
sliding scale,
rable example during the five bad
~ ~7 (Colonel Fawcett) requested me to call tyeansoll
which elapsed from 1836 to 1840, in ths'
the corn-laws, from the effect of the same' as so':nl as -I. could, to explain to him what sowso, sot
tied paid to his credit. I did . pig.
evening of the .
~ Lieut.
and the continued low prices, were practically' a&Aished ; sums wtsre that -,.!
and importations, at the close of the period, amounted to 26th of last .
2,500,000 quarters, and, on an average of the whole, lies
little short of 2,000,000 of quarters. And what was tia:i Colonel Fawcett into the city, he hinted to loos, s most
result? The exportation of 6,000,000 of sovereigns in a had some sus,-ficions upon his mind that were
,Ib'elves.
Itinhfaovretunnoaviteltyo',
single year to buy grain; an unexampled pressure on the unhappy nature. When I called upon him 09,L sseltei.
mentiononthe that sl'hen I accompanied that he
money market ; commercial embarrassments, long-conti- ing of the 29th of :une, he appeared consideralol' nom
nued, and severe beyond all former precedent • the con- There was a person 0: the name of Romer if h upon
traction of ten millions of additional debt in /our years, who was sent away as 0,.-on as I entered, althoughll fse
and the creation of a deficit which at length rose to the previous occasions he had -,:mained. I think r lierei
formidable amount, in 1842, of £4,000,000 sterling ! And expected; and, from the aceen2nts being at once
at tilt
what first dispelled this distress, and arrested this down- upon, and from other circurostan‘:"' I believe pre°.
-ewards was s pea
ward and disastrous progress ? The fine harvests of 1812 gross insult that was put upon me ON. -led
mss.r' lb,
—the blessed sun of its long summer, followed by the dilated. The small sums previously alba, Stlll
more checkered, but also fine summer of 1843, which explained to his satisfaction • but the £5O the s nieraPt
again gave us plenty, derived from domestic production, was allowed for the loss she bad sustained in tab.-. hisc,
and consequent general and increasing manufacturing as wick-house with a bad tenant in it, was made the Slt',.
well as rural prosperity.—Blackwood's Magazine. upon which a quarrel was to be effected. I end
INFLUENCE OF PRINCE METTERNICH OVER THE repeatedly to make him understand that it was strino
ROYAL FAMILY OF AUSTRIA.—The influence exercised conformity with his own directions that Mrs. Salitastioa
by the Prince de Metternich over the royal family of Aus- been let off paying £5O, as well as to draw his stlesutbet
tria is one of those subjects to which that statesman never to the important services I had rendered hint lossvoss;
refers, and which he much dislikes to hear conversed matters, and the high price I had obtained for the gyp,
about. The fact is, that Francis 11. was, personally, so but he kept constantly reverting to the case of the we.
omnipotent in Austria, that " right" was what pleased and insinuated repeatedly that I had neglected his ori,
the emperor, i. e. his will ; and " wrong," what displeased rest, and bad allowed myself to be bamboozled be ";ire
him. It is very far, indeed, from true, that the monarch Smith. * * * I remained perfectly lit
and his prime minister always thought alike ; but the lat- under all the insinuations for a considerable time. /41
ter knew when to yield, and never allowed the emperor I tried to get him off the subject of the £5O, but be ",„e,
to feel than any other will really governed but his own. perpetually and violently returning to it, and blarningse
The Emperor Francis admired the integrity, openness, as pointedly as he could, for all that was wrong ahem'
f elf
and consistency of the Prince de Metternich's character; delay in the sale of the house. The consciousness°
hy and would laugh very heartily when told that the English most zealous, fortunate, and unwearied t. ns in -
exer to of
prints sometimes called him a Jesuit. The prince, in his favour made me doubt for a long time if he could te...ft,
turn, smiled at the eccentricities of his sovereign, and en- mean what he said ; at last I observed, ' Well, FoisyVer
joyed the old-fashioned green caleche of his royal master, this is a very different return from what I expected, 1";
with his simple pair of horses : the emperor dressed in a I have attended to your interests as I never -did W °lig
brown, shabby cabotte, with a corresponding hat ; thus own. I have served you as no other man could 12114,1
riding along like an old retired merchant, nodding, here done, and you have frequently insinuated that I neglect„
and there, right and left, most friendly as be passecralong. your affairs or interest when you were absent.' He ".0;
"In spite of all that easy exterior," remarked the Prince plied loudly, ' I did not, sir.' I answered, ' You did, ,
de Metternic
hi hto an English gentleman, who was walking I understood you to do so.' He violently answered, 4
with him as s majesty passed, " the emperor is not less flat contradiction I will bear from no man.' He rang 'w
an emperor; his will is law in this country, and the peo- bell (he was during the whole of the above time, orn
ple love to have it so." Of his brothers, the emperor was so, walking hurriedly about the room), opened the door
4
most attached to the Vice-King of Italy; of the Prince before the servant could answer to the bell, and 0061
Charles he was said to be jealous, Prince John was too out in a rage, ' Open the door, and keep it open u_sno,
learned for him, and the Palatine too impetuous. When Mr. Munro is turned out of the house.' I was so °lot
the latter requested the emperor's permission to marry founded by the unexpected and unnecessary violates,
for the third time, the emperor replied, "You may take the act, with the recklessness and ingratitude evinced ut
her ; but I shall myself pray for her long life, for I pre- it, that I did not know what to do or what to say;' butif
some you would next marry a Jewess."—Fraser's Maga- remained for a few minutes, and then went away', nesrbi
zine. distracted with the cruel and gross insult put upon me j,
THE CEDAR OF LEBANON.—A 3 compared with other a person whom I had rendered such service to; ti, I
evergreen coniferous trees, it surpasses them all in grand supposing that I might be spurned for permitting if''
and picturesque effect; and, when arrived at maturity, returned and said, that if it bard not been for the eat
or approaching those gigantic dimensions which it ac- nexion that existed between us, and the unseemly net
ite
quires in its native habits, may justly be considered as of such a proceeding, I would bring him to account form
one of the most magnificent of the vegetable creation. or have resented it upon the spot. He replied that as i
In its form and mode of growth, every circumstance is cal- I the connexion, lie wished never to hear of it again, atilt
culated to give it an imposing and noble aspect ; the trunk hoped that it would not prevent me from doing ribs./
being massive, and of a large diameter in proportion to referred to. I then went away. upon the followl;
its height, indicates that strength and longevity by which morning I took the orinion of an officer of acknowledlfbe
it is characterized in passages of holy writ s whilst its py- judgment, and of upwards of thirty years' standing in tbst
riamidical head, composed of numerous horizontal boughs army, upon the unfortunate occurrence. He said to,
rising tier above tier in thick succession, tine /clothed with during the course of his service he had never heard of it
a mantling foliage of never-fading green, forms a canopy, gross an outrage, and that, as a British officer upon fait
or as the prophet Ezekiel expresses it, " a shadowing pay, I had no alternative whatever but what was us4r,
shroud " of vast extent and striking appearance. This viz., an apology or a meeting. I then called' upon ,of
grandeur and beauty of form naturally associates the ce. Grant, and took him with me to consult with a friend. °f
dar, in our ideas, with objects of importance and' scenery much experience in these unhappy affairs. ins o,..l'inlei of the loftiest description ; and hence it is that it becomes entirely coincided with that of my other friend's on;t,
a more appropriate ornament and appendage to imposing said he would take the advice of a general officer abot',o
architectural masses, and grounds of wide extent, than to whose reply was, that no officer holding her IVlalolt,
the precincts of a modern villa, where none of the accom. commission could possibly exist under such ain insa,
paniments are of a corresponding, magnitude, or in accor. In the course of the same day I took the opinionsof tliT
dance with thosefeelings which its presence is calculated other friends (ail officers, or having been in the Bel;
to excite. Such, also, seems the feeling of eminent pain- they all said, that, however lamentable the procesulss
ters with regard to this tree, whenever it can be appropri- was, I was compelled to uphold the honour of the egtivi
ately introduced into their compositions. Thus in seve- I held in the service at the hazard of my life. I ebs
rat of the wonderful and highly imaginative pictures of the that one word of regret might have been expressed lotto
celebrated Martin, the cedar is prominently brought for- , wanton and gross- insult put upon me ' • but none vont,..,
ward, particularly in his representation of the destruction be given, and a meeting was proposed that day by Lica' if
of Babylon, where it is made the principal tree in its Col. Fawcett, to which Mr. Giant objected. Whensce
far-famed terraces and hanging gardens. It is also a fbund, late in the evening of the 39th of June, that o,
prominent object in the gardens of Nineveh, as represent- amicable arrangement was likely to be come to, alt"„uds,'
ed in his fall of that city ; and ancient cedars also enter I had left the affair entirely in the hands of my sec°" to'
into its imaginary view of the Garden of Eden.—Selby'e I wrote a note, recommending my wife and children td'
British Forest Trees. the care of some friends ;. and also a pa-per (which Isnot
in the presence of two witnesses), declaring that 1.11,1,4,
f deeply deplored being obliged to go out with Lieut.-Cod
Fawcett, and that, from circumstances over which I Vle,
no control, I was forced to do so. 1 most earnestly A,
sired that some arrangement might be come to the folumponti
ing morning, and I made three appeals to Mr. GraGod,
the ground with that view, saying each time, . Good _gait
Grant, oan nothing be done to stop this dreadful
from going on ? ' but it appears he was so obstirlorcet,t•
violently received the day before by Lieut.-Col' \ rStall"..
that he had no hope of oemoming to a friendlYl-111' e
ing."
I le t.
The following extract will, convey some idea. of '---11
Munro's state of mind :
" I will not attempt to describe my own roost unbelief;
state of mind, since I have been forced to fly from r°o
country, my profession, and my beloved wile,- childret
father, mother, and relations ;: but those who have known
me from my childhood, and' my gallant comrades, can
s,
conceive what I have suffered, I had a happy and ao'
tented home ;: my utmost and constant endeavours were 6
directed to perform, to the best- of my power,- say duties
my God, to all men, and also as a faithful subject td
her most gracious Majesty ; and I am now a marked sn.
wretched esile. It has been said that I was to enter
d;
foreign service, and I have occasionally in my'solitn„a
and wretchedhess thought of doing so ; but my heart and
affections are,,and ever will
rs remain, with my kindred an
my country and Ido not think that I need be ashamed
of owning that when alone I have shed many a bitter tear
for n-hat has happened, but what I could not pro/en,.
But I have a great consolation in the assurance that ',-
1
merciful and all-seeing Maker will hold me guiltless,no
the abominable and horrible cr:me that erring men, li''
myself, lay to my charge."

STRAWBERRY HlLL.—What will the palslic say when
they hear of a " Second Strawberry Hill Sale ?" and yet
such is the fact; but then it is ushered into publie atten-
tion with so much modesty and adroitness; there is such
a degree of tact connected with the mode of communica-
tion, that Punch, if he be in a merry vein next week, will
probably insinuate that this announcement is indepted to
the prolific pen of Lord Brougham, who is now positively
accusedlof being the original efGeorge Robins's "sayings
and Doings.'' It may be remembered the celebrated
Mathews, 20 years ago, in a facetious mood, after' dinner,
one day created a joke athis expense, tothe effect that he had
engaged the services of a great literary divine, classically
endowed with an income of only one thousand pounds a
year, to compose his own amusing advertisement. Our
readers, after they have had their smile, need not be told
this is all fudge—a story long since worn out—for we do
know that whatever may belong to these literary achieve-
ments, they can be alone traced to the fertile brain of the
" Knight of the Hammer ;" but Punch has just indulged
its readers with a new version of a stale joke. The ex-
chancellor, Lord Brougham, it is now discovered, is-the
culprit, but let us quote him correctly ; and before we do
so we must finish our commentary upon Strawberry Hill.
This announcement will be found in our columns, and
there is a point or two that really deserve great credit,-and
most especially-not less for originality than great ingenu-
ity ; our friend modestly introduces it thus :—" It is an
exceedingly valuable melange of property (meaning the
Countess of Mansfield's) on Richmond Hill, so recherche
in the several departments in the arts- and sciences, that
it will not be QUITE SACRILEGS! to designate it a
humble revival' to Strawberry Hill. Now considering he
is treading on such classic ground, he may be accounted
clever to have made so neat an excuse for such a compa-
rison ; again, he says, in order to enlist the attention of
the scientific world, and those who were ENRAPTUISIID
at Lord Walpole's are to be DELIGHTED at this re-
nowned receptacle of varied treasures;• but we have wan-
dered from the point, and will conclude by Punch's proof
of his perspicacity, by having discovered the "real Simon
Pure," whose lucubrations have for twenty years afforded
so much satisfaction and delight. Let us see his quota-
tion :—" The adjustment of the corn bill has arrived at a
great, a triumphant result. It is now conceded to Sir
Robert Peel, that in the intricate task, which required all
the mind, the perspicacity, and depth of intellect pos-
sessed by our first minister, in organising his salutary
alteration in the corn bill, he has dealt out a measure of
strict and impartial justice, no less to the manufacturing
than the agricultural interest." Now this style cannot
be disguised, it rnit•t be from the prolific brain of one late
lord on the Woolsack ; and the confirmation is sealed by
the recollection of his present praise, compared with so
many years of abuse in bygone days.—Morning Herald.

VOLUNTARY .STARVATION.—Sometime ago,Mr.Jasl.e:
Osborne, of Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire. cr'A
robbed of a considerable sum of money by a boy narac"
Thomas Charles, in whom he had placed great confidence
This circumstance preyed so deeply upon his mind as t,
produce an aberration of intellect, and on the 15t153.e,
February last he attempted to commit suicide by cutting
his throat. He was, however, prevented from doingo,ls; 0
and since that period has never been suffered to be ,
himself ; but from that time he stedfastly refused to take
the slightest nourishment, and even treated with violence
any person who offered him food. On the 29th nit. b,
died from exhaustion.

SUICIDE FEONI DEPRESSION OF SPIR*TS.-011
week an inquest wns held at the Friendship Inn, Burrells,
near Appleby, on the body of James Harrison, husband;
man, of that place, aged 73, who was found suspeade'
from the branch of an ash tree in his own field. r
some months past had complained of pain about his heir
particularly at nights, when he was in bed, attended n
sickness which produced pain in the head and for which
his wife was obliged to tie up his head with a handker-
chief. He had not any work for many weeks ; hut, UP td
this time, had no occasion to complain of want, but l 38"
always decently to put on with, when out of work he Pl°,l
ed and fretted a good deal. Within the last monthhell,3_,
stated that his spirits were down, and he would never
able to work again. On Monday he got up between eight
and nine o'clock, took a rop and said he would fete'
some hay from the stack, which is in the:field !about
quarter of a mile distant. After he had been absent abO°:
two hours she thought he stayed long, and went. to 1001.
for him, when she got to the field she found him suspend"
ed from an ash tree near the bay stack.
GATIiERINGS EXTRAOr.DINARY.—A venerable P.irj
man and wife, and both highly respectable people, die_
lately in Galloway, within a day of one another, who;
effects, if brought to sale, would furnish matter for ob,
of the most curious catalogues that was perhaps ever tfic,
mitted by an auctioneer to the atntion f the P°
Deposits of silver coin secreted inte places where s •
would have ever dreamed of looking for such artie,,e.f;
one parcel, carefully wrapped in a piece of rag, found la
the- corner of a lumben-drawer ; others in paper'craramiev
into an old basket, or- hid in outhouses, or some etina';.,
unpromising corner. These coins appear to have Deen,
shut out from the light of day for a number of years, fra°,l,
the different values they represent, such as.ls. 6d•,15.`-a.t
2s. 6d., and. Sc.; and had become, in consequence..°,e
only tarnished, but nearly as black as soot itself. Tiler
were also gold coins, foreign as well as British, of very
small values up bo £5, with a great variety of difftrento,
articles, the fancy of the party appearing to have been, 1,
have a something of everything. these, let the 0,
lowing specimens suffice :—Eight richly•ornamented
ding whips ; la unbroken pieces of linen ; 30 pair of g-174
sheets ; 20 down of towels ; about 250 rich-coloured ,
-
handkerchiefs ; three dozen thimbles of divers me"
fop
pairs of scissors, and one gold pair ditto; 100 113'11.'5
silk stockings ; 30 gowns, made and unmade ; 16 womelir
bonnets ; a lot of shoemakers' waxed threads, with brit,
ties tles attached ; coffin lacing ; and a great number a 4,
ties of wines and spirits, of all qualities. Part of t"..,0•
were found in an old tea-chest, supposed to contain res,
thing but rubbish ; but when the assistant to a Prof
Mona! gentleman, engaged in inventoring the effects;
ees
directed to throw it out, he drew from their hiding-nl'wer
seventeen bottles of wines and spirits, some of the father
Champagne. But there was an endless array of ° too
nick-hacks, an enumeration of which would o,:cuPYlierill
much space, if not exhaust the patience of the gF eon'
reader. The husband, in this case, was a great Plfve-
fancier for many years, and possessed a very large coterl
tion of these birds, which he regularly fed and Ci
llrthe
with his own hands, and which included nearlY all h e
varying breeds known in the world; and, altho,_*,ol,
lengthened period has intervened, we still recollecnterf,
pointing out a curious fact in natural histoll-7°, foot•
that every time the turtle-dove coos, it lifts its right chiC,
And that such is literally the fact, was proved by mien ,
demonstration. He had also a number of fine en Siage
but all his feathered favourities have been disFafse
his death among friends and acquaintances residiegu, it 001
the locality which knew him so long and well, D
know him no more. Many of the doves were exne_`foro3
f
beautiful, and even valuable to persons desirous of
ing a collection on 3n extended•scale,--Drtrifire's"

FREE TRADE OLD AND NEW STATES,---The supe-
rior weight of wages, rent, and all the elements of cost,
in the old, when compared with the young community,
affects the manufacturer as well as the farmer ; and in
some branches• of manufactures it, does so with an over-
whelming effect. But, generally speaking, the advan-
tages of capital, machinery, and the division of labour,
render the old state altogether predominant over the
young one in these particulars. It would seem to be a
fixed law of nature, that the progress of society adds al-
most nothing to the application of machinery to agricul-
ture, but indefinitely to its importance in manufactures.
Observe an. old man digging his garden with a spade—
that is the most productive species of cultivation ; it is
the last stage of agricultural progress to return to it. No
steam engines or steam ploughs will ever rival it. But
what is the old weaver toiling with his hands, to the huge
steam-power mill, turning at once ten thousand spindles?
As dust in the balance. Man, by a beneficent law of his
Maker, is permanently secured in his first and.best pur-
suit. /t is in those which demoralize and degrade, that
machinery progressively encroaches on the labour of his
hands. England can undersell India in muslins and
printed- goods, manufactured in Lancashire or Lanark-
shire, out of cotton which grew on the banks of the
Ganges ; for England, though younger in years compared
to India, is old in civilization, wealth, and power. We
should like to see what profit would be made by exporting
wheat from England, raised on land paying thirty shil-
lings an acre of rent, by labourers paid at two shillings
a-day, to Hindosten, where lice is raised twice a-year,
on land paying five shillings an acre rent, by labourers
receiving twopence a-day each. It is the constant opera-
tion of this law of nature which ensures the equalization
of empires, the happiness of society, and the dispersion
of mankind. To be convinced of this, we have only to
reflect on the results which would ensue if this were not
the case ; if no unvarying law gave man in remote sitaa •
tions an advantage in raising subsistence over what they
enjoy in the centres of opulence ; and agriculture, in the
aged and wealthy community, was able to acquire the
same decisive superiority over distant and comparatively
poor ones, which we see daily exemplified in the produc-
tion of manufactures. Suppose, for example, that in
consequence of the application of the steam-engine, ca-
pital, and machinery to the raising of subsistence, Great
Britain could undersell the cultivators of Poland and the
Ukraine as effectually as she does their manufacturers in
the production of cotton goods ; that she could sell in the
Polish market wheat at five shillings a quarter, when they
require fifteen shillings to remunerate the cost of produc-
tion. Would not the result be, that commerce between
them would be entirely destroyed ; that subsistence would
be exclusively raised in the old and opulent community ;
that mankind would congregate in fearful multitudes
round the great commercial emporium of the world; and
that the industry and progress of the more distant nations
would be irrevocably blighted? Whereas, by the opera-
tion of the present law of nature, that the rich state can
always undersell the poor one in manufactures, and the
poor one always undersell the rich one in subsistence,
pearrttichuela grio situa-
tions, d ngers are removed, a check is provided to the
n
du a multiplication
the
dispersion of theo f
mankindspeciesin over
vital object in the system of nature—is secured, from the
very necessities and difficulties in which, in the progress
of society, the old and wealthy community becomes ie-
voleed.—Bleekcooen Maya7ine,