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SLIGO, FRIDAY EVI,NING, MA V 5.-It will give you in-
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—s,e or nis she,) no planters.
persons present, notwithstanding that the reverend whippers-
-3 no love for a residence in the country. The first planters
. in tad ordered the attendance of all their flocks, each man
!re old Lord Bathurst, at Cirencester, and the Duke of to be armed with at least a shilling ; and the ereat proportion
rgyle at Whitton, near Hounslow. In Thomson's time a of these were the little urchins of the town that got a holiday
setter and more English taste was rising; and while he was from the national and cabin sehbols, to hark in a cheer for
writing the Seasons, Shenstone was laying out the Leasowes, the Liberator. There was not a gentleman present. There
and Lady Lyttleton was forming the beautiful grounds of were a few of the traders of the town, respectable in their
Bagley. The arts rose together, and poetry was affected, as rank, no doubt, but who, it was a great pity to find. had not
it always will be, by the general tastes and social state of the sense enough to remember what they were, and that it was
people. There is no pretension to novelty in our remadc, under British connection, and in British markets, they lied
but it is meant simply to show that the poets were not more made sufficient money to buy the Sunday broad-cloth they
insensible to the beauties of nature than those who practised had mounted on the occasion.
the other arts that embellish life ; that the general tone of The public dinner was, if possible, a greater failure than
the meeting. At live o'clock there were not thirty tickets
society was with them, and that the same artificial taste was
taken ; and Mrs. Davis, the providore, refused to "serve
everywhere visible. The poetical couplet of Dryden had
up," unless she was guaranteed in something like a remune-
superseded the blank verse of Milton ; the peruke and era-
ration. lam not able to inform you who are the securities,
vat, the laced coat, the flowing and chivalrous dress of the
b
days of Henry and Elizabeth ; while the straight lines and but they appear to be prudent persons, as they reduced the
avenues, and quincunxes in parks and gardens, had super-
price from 12s. sd. to 7s. 6d.: this, perhaps, got off thirty
more; and the remainder, up to about one hundred, were
seded the wilder and irregular forms of natural beauty.—
supplied gratis to whoever (not excepting a waiter in a hotel,
Gentleman's Magazine.*
who was perhaps " expected to make himself generally use-
ful") was able to demonstrate that their throats were at all
events as valuable to aid in a shout as in a feast ; for of all
the cheers I ever heard, the Sligo cheering on this occasion
was the very worst ; I often heard more noise after a dog
with an old kettle at his tail.
The Liberator slept last night, and breakfasted this morn-
ing, at our mayor's, Mr. Martin Madden, and left immedi-
ately after for Dublin, and we wish you joy of him.
The government, thanks to Mr. Lefroy's question across
the table, ordered in a troop of the 12th Lancers, two com-
panies of the .17th regiment, and about one hundred additional
constabulary. This probably saved us some trouble, as we
would likely have otherwise been called on to illuminate, to
which some of the old-fashioned inhabitants would have
shown, in an old-fashioned way, that they had a decided ob-
jection. I am prowl of Sligo. You may depend on it, it
will be some time before Dan makes a demonstration here :
he has not even the satisfaction of being able to say he met
with the slightest opposition. There are enough of the boys
about here to make a pickled herring of him ; but they kept
within doors, and treated him with silent contempt.

A SKETCH OF THE AMERICAN SENATE.—At the begin-
ng of the year, Lord Morpeth being present in the house of
representatives during a commotion raised against Ex-Pres-
ident Quincy Adams, for h
' having said something against sla-
very, that venerable and distinguished old man was, in his
owilhearing, horribly insulted, and called a black liar and a
traitor. II is most eloquent denouncer was a Mr. \Vise, who
interlarded his furious tirade with insults to England.
" Lord Nlorpeth," says the correspondent of the New York
American, " occupied the chair of one the members, and
was apparently the person to whom «Vise directed all his
swaggering, bullying abuse of the British nation and govern-
ment. Whenever he said anything abusive, he always turn-
ed to the viscount, and pointed significantly at him, appar-
ently delighted to insult a stranger and a lord, without the
possibility of a reply." And the only reception given to all
this was tumultuous applause. In the senate at the close of
February..r. Tallmadge was interrupted by Mr. Benton
calling him a liar. Mr. Talmudge reiterated his statements
and Mr. Benton repeated the lie. The following then pas-
sed :—" Mr. Clay hoped the senator would be compelled to
take his seat.—Mr. Benton : The senator is in his seat.—
Mr. Clay : The senator has no right to speak, while he is
in his seat ; and if he speaks to me, he shall receive such
language in reply as his conduct deserves.—Mr. Benton : I
hope that language will be followed by corresponding action."
No one took the least notice of thiss gross insult to by far
the ablest and most accomplished of all the American states-
men.—Article, Newspaper Literature of America : Foreign
Quarterly Review.
THE REV. R. W. SIBTIIORP IN EARLY LlFE.—There
were many circumstances which contributed to his fame.
He was a member of an old family ; a man of acknowledged
ability ; and. of unsparing devotedness to his profession. II is
voice was singularly musical ; and the powers of imagination
results of learning, which he brought to bear

(From the Sligo Journal of Friday.)

In this county, the demonstration which was " to fright
the isle from its propriety," was a most ridiculous spectacle.
About 3,000 peasants, forced by their priests to attend, two
old broken down coaches, one of them hired by a bankrupt
trader's shopboy, O'Connell's own carriage, and a few hack
jaunting cars, accompanied by the flags and banners of the
Trade's Union, formed the procession. To O'Connell the
whole was a good joke, and he evidently enjoyed it, if we
might judge from his extemporaneous w►ttic►sms. We hove
Father Teeny recompensed him this morning as substantially
as he expected. If he did not get money from him, he had
only Father Coghlan's £l2. 10s. to comfort him, as not a
single man present at the meeting came forward to enrol
himself a Repealer.
[The Nation of Saturday says there were 170,000 persons
present !]

as well as th

on his pulpit ministrations, were very captivating. But
amid the impressive exhortation and affectionate earnestness
which pervaded his addresses, there was also a tone of mys-
ticism. There was in all his sermons a leaven—so to speak,
and the term is used I trust not irreverently—of what bor-
dered on the romantic and speculative in religion. To ac-
count for this, his admirers used to advert to the unusual
tenor of his own career. In early life he was enticed from
his home by a Romish priest, with whom he resided many
months ; and during which period his friends lost all clue to
him. The object was to convert him to Romanisin. And
from its trammels he then had a narrow escape. Another
incident betel him in later life—an attachment formed for
him by an accomplished lady holding the Romish faith, and
which had again nearly brought him within the pale of Ro-
manism. Connected with this there is a curious incident.
A highly finished miniature of him was placed at the exhi-
tion at Somerset House. It was an admirable likeness, and
was readily recognised. Three weeks elapsed and it was
gone ! The thief was never discovered and considerable
promptitude as well as management must have been brought
into play to carry it off unobserved—hut it was effected.
Some ladies had been seen, for several successive mornings,
hovering around the spot where it hung—but further clue
there was none. All these various details threw an air of
interest, romance, and mystery around this extraordinary
man's history.—The Bishop's Daughter.
THE JEWS OF Lisnos.—Gathered in small clusters about
the pillars at the lower extremities of the gold and silver
streets in Lisbon, may be observed, about noon in every (lay,
certain strange-looking men, whose appearance is neither
Portuguese nor European. Their dress generally consists of
a red cap, with a blue silken tassel at the top of it, a blue
tunic girded at the waist with a red sash, and wide linen pan-
taloons, or trousers. He who passes by these groups gene-
rally hears them conversing in broken Spanish or Portuguese,
and occasionally in a harsh guttural language, which the
Oriental traveller knows to be the Arabic, or a dialect
thereof. These people are the Jews of Lisbon. Into the
midst of one of these groups, I one day introduced myself,
and pronounced a beraka, or blessing. I have lived in dif-
ferent parts of the world, much among the Hebrew race, and
am well acquainted with their ways and phraseology. I was
rather anxious to become acquainted with the state of the
Portuguese Jews, and I had now an opportunity. " The
man is a powerful rabbi," said a voice in Arabic : " it be-
hoves us to treat him kindly." They welcomed me. I fa-
voured their mistake, and in a few days I knew all that re-
lated to them and their traffic in Lisbon. I found them a
vile, infamous rabble, about two hundred in number. With
a few exceptions, they consist of escapadoes, from the Bar-
bary shore, from Tetuan, from 'rangier, but principally from
Mogadore ; fellows who have fled to a foreign land from the
punishment due to their misdeeds. Their manner of life in
Lisbon is worthy of such a good assemblage of anus /Tunis.
The generality of them pretend to work in gold and silver,
and keep small peddling shops : they, however, principally
depend for their livelihood on an extensive traffic in stolen
goods which they carry on.—Borrow's The Bible in Spain.
POWER OF THE VOICE OVER CHILDREN.—It is Usual
to attempt the management of children either by corporal
punishment, or by rewards addressed to the senses, or by
words alone. There is one other means of government, the
power and importance of which are seldom regarded ; I refer
to the human voice. A blow may be inflicted on a child, ac-
companied by words so tattered as to counteract entirely its
intended effect ; or the parent may use language, in the cor-
rection of the child, not objectionable in itself, yet spoken in
a tone which more than defeats its influence. Let any one
endeavour to recall the image of a fond mother long since at
rest in heaven. Her sweet smile and ever clear countenance
are brought vividly to recollection ; and so also is her voice ;
and blessed is that parent who is endowed with a pleasing
utterance. What is it which lulls an infant to repose? It is
no array of mere words. There is no charm to the untaught
one in letters, syllables, and sentences. It is the sound
which strikes its little ear that soothes and composes it to
sleep. A few notes, however unskilfully arranged, if uttered
in a soft tone, are found to possess a magic influence.
Think we that this influence is confined to the cradle ? No,
it is diffused over every age. and ceases not while the child
remains under the parental roof. Is the boy growing rude in
manner and boisterous in speech ? I know of no instrument
so sure to control these tendencies as the gentle tones of a
mother. She who speaks to her son harshly does but give to
his conduct the sanction of her own example. She pours oil
on the already raging flame. In the pressure of duty, we are
liable to utter ourselves hastily to our children. Perhaps a
threat is expressed in a loud and irritating tone ; instead of
allaying the passions of the child it serves directly to increase
them. Every !fretful expression awakens in him the same
spirit which produced it. So does a pleasant voice call up
agreeable feelings. Whatever disposition, therefore, we
would encourage in a child, the same we should manifest in
in the tone in which we address him.—Church of England
Magazine.
PLEASURES OF AN INDIAN VOYAGE.—I began by paying
£l5O sterling for a cabin to myself ; and had not inhabited
it two days before I found it so infested with cockroaches,
tbat I was bound to evacuate it • and should have been
houseless, if Sevestre had not kindly made me bring my cot,
and occupy half of his ; turning my own into a baggage ca-
bin. If we had been all Whittingtons, and each possessed
half a dozen cats, it would not have sufficed to deliver us
from the rude assaults of the innumerable host of rats that
invaded us. I had occasion to remove a trunk which stood
in one corner of the cabin, when, to my astonishment, I dis-
covered a small snake coiled up ' • and, as if not sufficiently
hideous as a snake de facto, I further discovered that the
creature had two heads. I called out loudly for a stick and
assistance, intending to commit a bloody deed upon the in-
truder. The cuddy servants, who had heard my vocifera-
tions, came rushing on to the fray ; but no sooner did they
see the nature of the foe, than they both jumped uo the
boxes, " Kill, him, sir kill him! Don't p
len t him
e here ! Just at this point the third mate came up,
crying out, " Don't hurt him, sir! Pray don't hurt him !"
tryi
and immediately laid hold of what turned out to be a pet of
his. Although I had never seen one before, I had frequently
heard
e d of " the double-headed sand-snake." This was one
singular species, and assuredly, as far as human
(e)stes'm rh'ffe vehtcrayn be credited, it has a clear and perfect head at
both. ends; the species, however, are entirely harmless, and
one in question, it appeared, had made its escape from
a tie
little box, in which the mate had kept it since leaving
Madras. As for pets they literally abound with us : there is
petcheetah, or leopard, big enough to swallow a sheep ;
thena nnumerable mongooses, whose little red noses are ever
and anon thrusting out from among the booms and spars on
the deck ; hundreds, I may say, of that beautiful little ele-
gant species of the feathered tribe, the avadavat, which I
cannot better describe than by saing that it is a black wren,
ec with crimson spots ; chattering paroquets are heard
direction ; and, though last, certainly not least wor-
in every .
the list, a mina. This race of birds is, without ex-
the most remarkable in the world for its talkative
ctl,inytin
-p-orw-ejoir)rinse'and its ability to imitate all kinds of human sounds ;
in question, however, really surpasses all I ever
and the whole live-long day talks, sings,
the d
in this way,
heard in in addition to which it gives all sorts of mock-
s s men, beasts, and birds.—.Thary of an Assistant
cries or

STEAM-SHIP PRESIDENT : CONSIDERATIONS
Surgeon.
AS TI!? ,I,LHA ifg rOSSI BLE CAUSE OF HER WRECK.—Mr. Ruck-
who made a passage in this ill-fated ship from New
ingharn, .
York to Liverpool, thus endeavours, in his new work on
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, &c., to account for
I(l::suabesecillellt loss :—" On the following voyage, the un.
fortunate President was l
and having sailed from New York
in her ordinary course, never since been heard of. A
variety of conjectures have been hazarded, as to the manner
in which her loss was occasioned ; and at this late period,
when the subject may be adverted to without harrowing up
the feelings of those who had friends on board, or prolonging
their painful suspense, for all hopes of her re-appearing have
now been long ago extingushed, it may not be unacceptable
to have the opinion of one who knew her qualities well. I
venture, therefore, to offer it as my belief, that under the
skilful commander who was then in charge, Captain Roberts,
no gale which she could encounter on her passage would be
sufficient to occasion her to founder. Insufficient as her
engines were to propel her with the requisite degree of speed,
they would always have force enough to keep her head to
windward in the heaviest gale that blew ; and in this posi-
tion, no pilot-boat that ever swam could lie-to more easily
and steadily than the President. As a seaboat, she was un-
rivalled ; and not the slightest manifestation was anywhere
visible on our homeward voyage, in the severest period of
the gale, of any weakness amid-ships, or anywhere else. An
- may have intercepted her course, or a ship may have
run her down, as all who have been much at sea know how
frequent are the accidents resulting from a bad look-out ; and
fire is a calamity to which all ships are liable, especially those
that carry a hundred passengers or more, where drunken
revels among some,* not sufficiently discouraged, because
profit is made by the sale of the wines and spirits, great care-
lessness with others, lights permitted improperly to be burn-
ing in the bed-cabins at a late hour, and their inmates going
lie
r
to sleep
without extinguishing them, with the inflammability
of all the materials of which a ship is composed,
making
much more rapidly destructive at sea than on land, and much
more difficult to extinguish. One or other of these calaniitioefs
might have destroyed the unfortunate
President ; and either
would account for the total destruction of everyvestige
her hull, as well as of her spars, boats, and moveable furni-
ture, bat especially the last, for the devouring flames leave
no vestige of anything unconsumed; and when all is burnt
to the water's edge, the heavy and ponderous mass below
inks to the bottom. This, though te most terrible,
soon s
is the most speedy death, and leaves at least h
the consolation,
that if the sufferings of the victims were severe, they were
soon terminated."

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York kd rinn
_table to their berths, on the first day after we left New
Freatield arid every day some of them drank to
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