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copper, and she is truDiteled and spiked e very
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timber,
from her keel to her up.per plank sheer, with no butts caulked from light water mark to plank sheer. In ever
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md. Four ran. Won easy. right to have entered into any such contract ; and then the
particular she is finished with neatness and strength. She
dISCARBORO' HANDlCAP.—Scarboio' Ist, The Receiver 2d, representation of Wanting to lodge .esoo—this was a misrepre-
Tessima 3d. Won by half a length. sentation. Ike amount stated is HO dollars, and not pounds.
MEMBERS' PLATE.—Ormsby walked over.
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thißs•haieelti 1,14.1ari
has consumed, while building, 7,000 lbs.of
LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS—YESTERDAY.
copper, 5,000
CLOSING PRICES. Mr. Snowball.—A gentleman has just forwarded me a paper, lbs Of ---•-• COMOntilt;nri ....A AV, nim It_
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Apas:ll)siren'd on the llth of July last.

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turn sway a helpless widow, with her child and white oak timber.
Her stores were taken'to New York, and they offer The

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nesi of the great founder of Pennsylvania, resting on the
charter granted by Charles H., and supported on each
side by an Indian prince and princess, the former holding
a weapon of warfare, the latter an olive branch; the car-
ving on the fashion pieces, the catheads, trailboards, &r.,
have all very appropriate devices.
The vessel is consigned to Mr. James- M'Henry, of

The Shaxamaxon is one of M
Philadelphia packets, and is truly a.
American marine. She was built, w►,
John 11. Hammet, and we trust she. will
as the adventurers are deserving. She ,
by Captain West, late of the Shenandoah,
only been brought up in an (ffieip”.
like his parent, made the "
West is young, but he is
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The lords of the admiralty have rescinded the order that
no contract mail steam-ship shall be built of iron.
A little boy called Hedden lacerated his hand severely
at an oil mill, in Oil-street, on Saturday.
A man named M'Douall had his foot severely hurt the
other day at the Victoria Dock by A bar of railway iron
falling upon it.

Yesterday a woman was thrown over by a spring cart
in Regent-street. She was so severely hurt that she was
taken INa the hospital.
ACCIDENT.— A young man is novr in the northern hos-
pital suffering from a fractured leg, arising from slipping
on the sea grass growing on the Egreinont
FlRE.—Early on Saturday morning n fir

the store-room of a druggist
Grcgson, Tithebarn-street.
rmriotptehret
yfirasesn'otanindsutrieed.hiss
We understand that it is in contemplation to present
Mr. R.obt. Clough, in-door superintendent of police, with
some testimonial in acknowli:dgment for the measures he
adopted to bring to justice the mock nuction swindlers,
and to suppress a great public nuisance and shameful sys-
tem of fraud.

Ice out in

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fhe fire-engines soon
did not exceed

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ESCAPE PROM Dr.C;WNING. ay last, about
four o'clock, as a man was endeavouring to get on board
the &acorn be boat, he slipped, and fell into the river. The
tide was running down at th,4 time, and we understand that
no attempt was made to rescue him till he had been car-
ried a considerable distance down the river, when a small
boat picked him up.
THE MANcn YST ER EDUCATIONAL Scheme.—A conver.
sazione took nlaer.

—On QFaurd,

associ-
ation School
respectably attended,
the Lord
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oppositionn,l ert (floe
tahuN)i(3!eisi
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Public
Society, for promoting a local schema• of education for the
boroughs of Manchester and Salford, supported by public
rates.
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attended,
there being from 400 to 500 persons present.
A man named Venn has been committed fn* 4,4.1 e• r...:

INDOLENCE

Indolent! indolent!—yes, I am indolent:
So is the grass growing tenderly, slowly,—
So is the violet fragrant and lowly,
Drinking in quietness, peace, and content,—
So is the bird on the light branches swinging,
Idly his carol of gratitude singing,
Only on iving and loving intent.

Indolent ! indolent!—yes, I am indolent :
So is the cloud overhanging the mountain,—
So is the tremulous wave of a fountain,
Uttering softly its elocuent psalm,—
Nerve and sensation in quiet reposing,
Silent as blossoms the night dew is closing,
But the full heart beating strongly and calm.
Indolent! indolent!—yes, I am indolent,
If it he idle to gather my pleasure
Out of creation's uncaveted treasure,
and morningi,—by forest and sea,—
Wild with the tempet's sublime exultation,

Lonely in autumn's forlorn lamentation,
Hopeful and happy with spring and the be(

are ye not ind

ges weary,—

Thralls of the earth
Toiling like
Toiling, and sinning,
Stifling the heavenwai

Its t
nomes "diem the darkness is dreary
to heap up your gold,—
reath of devotion.—

Crushing the freshness of every emotion,—
Hearts like the dead, that are pulseless and c

Indolent ! indolent!

rtthou not indolent,

Thou who art hvin;; unto'

and lonely

all that will cover thee only

Shrouded in selfishness, piteous ghost?
Sad eyes behold thee, and angels are weeping
O'er thy forsaken and desolate sleeping' •
Art thou not indolent?—Art thou not lost?

LITERATURE

IND THE FINE

A. W. H

ARTS.

The Dwellings of the Poor, and the Means of Improving
them. By Montague Gore. With a Sermon, by the
Rev. 'F. Bearnes. London: James Ridgway.
We are glad to see that Mr. Gore has vigorously taken

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on the classes for whose comfort he is such a sincere friend
We hope every philanthropist and Christian will read
his work, and that before much time elapses one great

so he has conferred a boon

source of poverty, miser), and vice existing among the

poor will be extinguished

Notes. to accompany Mr. Wyld's Model of the Earth,

Leicester-square

This is a unique guide to Mr. Wylcr's wonderful and

interesting performance. It is in itself a geographical
treatise, and commences with a description of the Earth

as part of the solar system, treats on its structure and

phenomena, and gives an intelligible yet elaborate de-
scription of all the countries, oceans, and seas, and
abounds with useful instruction. We should think that
an inspection of Mr. Wyld's globe for a few hours, as-

aisted by the " Notes," would do more to verse a man in
geographical knowledge than months of dry and labo-
rious study. The delightful impressions which must
be made on the mind would afford scope for high and
instructive thought.

ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.—We have received from Col.
Rawlinson an important communication relative to a dis-
covery made by him—in an inscription upon an Assyrian
bull—of an account of the campaign between Sennacherib
and Iltzekiali. It is a most satisfactory step to have es-
tablished the identity of the king who built the great
Palace of Koyunjik with the Sennacherib of Scripture.
We have now a tangible starting place for historical re-
search, and shall (Colonel Rawlinson asserts) make rapid
progress in fixing the Assyrian chronology.—Alkencettm.

HOW TO CUICE LYING'IN A FCHOOL.III is said of the
late Dr. Arnold, by his biographer, that it was his wish
that as much as possible should be done by the boys, and
nothing for them ; hence arose his practice, in which his
own delicacy of feeling and uprightness of purpose power-
fully assisted him, of treating the boys as gentlemen and
reasonable beings; of making them respect themselves by
the mere respect he showed them ; of showing that he ap-
pealed and trusted to their own common sense and con-
acience. L••ing to the masters, for example, he made a
great and moral offence, placing implicit confidence in a
hov's assertion ; and then, if a falsehood was discovered,
punishing it severely, and in the upper part of the school,
when persisted in, with expulsio9. Even in the lower
forms, any attempt at further proof of an assertion was
immediately checked, by " If you say so, that is quite
enough—ot course, I believe your word." There grew up
in consequence, a general feeling that it was a shame to
tell Arnold a lie ; he always believes one.
MARRIED LlFE.—Deceive not one another in small
things nor in great. One single little lie has, before now,
disturbed a whole married life—a small cause has often
great consequences. Fold not arms together and sit idle,
"Laziness is the devil's cushion." Do not run much
from hcme. One's own hearth is worth more than gold.
Many a marriage, my friends, begins like a rosy morning,
and then falls away like a snow wreath. And why, my
friends ? Because the married pair neglect to be as well-
pleasing to each oilier after marriage as before. Endeavour
always, my children, to please one another ; but at the
same time keep God in your thoughts. Lavish not all
your love on to-day, for remember that marriage has its
to-morrow likewise, and its day after to-morrow. Spare,
as one may say, fuel for winter. Consider, my daughters,
what the word wife expresses. The married woman is the
husband's domestic faith ; in her hand he must be able to
entrust to her the key of his heart, as well as the key of
his eating-room. His honour and his home are under her
keeping—his well-being in her hand. Think of this : and
you sons, be faithful husbands,and good fathers of families.
Act so that your wives shall esteem and love you.—Fre-
derika Bremer.

RESCUE FROM THIRST BY A PIGEON.—It is impossible
for fireside travellers to more than guess at the joy of ex-
pected rescue from death which the movements of an
Australian pigeon can inspire. Captain Sturt's narrative
of such an event is touching and unaffected. " None (he
says) of the horses could eat except Traveller. The others
collected around me, as I sat under a tree, with their
heads over mine, and my own horse pulled my hat off my
head to engage my attention. Poor brute! I would have
given much to relieve him, but I could not. We were all
in the same distress, and if we had not ultimately found
water must have perished together. Finding that they
would not eat, we proceeded onwards. At the head of
the valley Traveller fell dead. We made for the spot
where we had expected to relieve ourselves and our horses,
but the water was gone. Mr. Sturt poked his finger into
the mud and moistened his lips in the water that filled the
holes that he had made, but that was all. Our fate seemed
inevitable, when suddenly a pigeon topped the sand.hill—
being the first bird we had seen—a solitary bird. Passing
us like lightning, it pitched for a moment, and for a mo-
ment only, on the plain a quarter of a mile from us, and
then flew away. It could only have wetted its bill, but
Mr. Sturt marked the spot, and there was water ! We
were saved ! !"—The Dovecot and the Aviary.
WOMAN.—We do not agree in considering woman al-
together an angel ' • because, to verify the resemblance,
woman should be faultless, and we have never yet met
with one who had not some fascinating little sin left to
show that she was not too good for this world. Our no-
tion of woman, in the best sense of the word, is a being
fitted to be a help meet for man. She should have a
faithful, loving heart, that when, foiled in his worldly
career, his spirit is dark within him, and, in the bitterness
of his soul, he confesses that the " good that he would he
does not, but the evil he would not, that he does," her
affection may prove to him, that in her love he has one
inestimable blessing yet remaining of which death alone
can deprive him, and then only for a season ; for, availing
herself of the fitting moment with the delicate tact which
is one of the brielitest instincts of a loving woman's heart,
she can offer him the only true consolation, by urging
him to renew his Christian warfare in the hope that toge-
ther they may attain the reward of their high calling, a
reward so glorious that the mind of man is impotent to
conceive its nature. But to be able to do this, she must
herself have realised by the power of faith the blessedness
of things unseen, and with this requisite, without which
all other excellencies are valueless, we conclude our defi-
nition of " woman as she should be." Such a one was
Rose Arundel, and countless others are there who, if not
sinless as the radiant messengers of heaven, are yet doing
angels' work by many a fire-side which their presence
cheers and blesses. Happy is the man who possesses in
a wife or sister such a hoesehold fairy ; and it some there
be who bear alone the burden of life, whose joys are few,
—for we rejoice not in solitude,—let those whose lot is
brighter forgive the clouded brow, or the cynical word,
that at times attests the weariness of a soul on which the
sunlight of affection seldom beams.—Lewis Arundel.

ROMAN GA oi.s.—They are divided into cells of between
7 and 8 feet square, or, as it may be desirable to state the
exact proportions, of 8 ft. llin. in length, ift. iin. in
breadth, and ift. 10in. in height. In each of these are
shut two prisoners, who are thus placed on an allowance
of air little greater than that required for the consumption
of one. But this separate incarceration is a privilege to
be earned only by formidable guilt or purchased by con-
siderable bribes. For the common class of prisoners there
is one common room, where they lie day and night, like
negroes in a slave ship, on straw too foul for a stable.
On provocation given or assumed the gaoler has the power
of inflicting severe flogging, or of attaching to the legs
of his victims a weight of iron so great as almost to
incapacitate them from moving. Besides these apart-
ments there are others designed to hold ten prisoners
each, but for which twenty is now considered a fitter
complement, and in these the single window is so high
from the ground that the inmates can only obtain
a breath of air by mounting upon each others shoulders
in turn. Once a month only is any visit allowed from
friends or relatives, and then in the presence of the
gaolers and with a double iron grating intervening. We
have confined ourselves to a simple statement of facts
without any comment, but the reader will probably be
not surprised when we add, that within the space of a
few days, as credibly reported, six prisoners had died of
starvation, two had been put in irons for attempting
suicide, and two had been carried raving to a madhouse.
Even this, however, is but an imperfect sketch of the
horrors prevailing. So frightful are the practices of these
rooms, where the very vilest of desperadoes are herded
together without any effectual supervision, that the politi-
cal prisoners are glad to provoke solitary confinement by
any breach of discipline as an escape from inexpressible
pollution. Thosn who remember the stories of convict
life which almost terrified our government from the sys-
tem of transportation, will be able to imagine the enor-
mities of these infamous abodes. and to conclude how
completely even all that we have described is outdone by
that which is indescribable....-- Tito Timer.,

FOREIGN AND COLON-IAL.
♦
FRANCE.

The shopl(eepers of Paris admit that this is the best
season they have experienced for some years. The manu-
facturers continue to receive orders from abroad, and all
articles of luxury are in good demand; but the difficulty
of converting commercial bills into cash tends to restrict
the amount of their operations. The accounts from the
agricultural districts state that the harvest is almost en-
tirely concluded. The wheat crop is excellent throughout
the southern and western departments, and in the Bour-
bonnais. It is expected to produce a fair average in the
departmenis of the centre, notwithstanding the storms and
inundations which have prevailed there and in some places
have produced considerable injury, but the produce bas
not been so abundant in the neighbourhood of Paris, La
Beauce, La Brie,, Picardy, Champagne, Lorraine, Alsace,
and the Ardennes. Notwithstanding the latter drawback
to the general prosperity, the millers show no inclination
to purchase, being persuaded that wheat must MI still
lower when the new grain appears in large quantities in
the markets.

Five more general councils have adopted resolutions in
favour of revision of the constitution.
Several of the .Orleanists who went to London for the
funeral service to the memory of Louis Philippe have
returned to Paris. It is stated on the authority of one of
the most prominent among them that the Prinoe de Join-
vine is decidedly disposed to accept the candidateship for
the Presidency of the Republic if, to use his own words,
it should gagner din terrain in France ; but the ex-Queen
is as decidedly opposed to it. In this case the candidate-
ship would probably be abandoned by nearly all the
respectable men of the party.
The funeral service for the repose of the soul of the
late King Louis Philippe took place on Tuesday in the
Royal Chapel at Dreux. It was attended by M. Desmous-
seaux (de Givrt,), representative of the people. M. Charles,
ex-deputy, M. Marechal, ex-sub-prefect of Dreux, a num-
ber of officers and soldiers, and of the most respectable
inhabitants of the town. After the ceremony the vaults
were thrown open, and a great number of persons visited
them to pray by the tombs of the royal family.
There is a balloon mania in Paris; nearly every one is
gazing skywards at the monsters that float through the air:
Each child in Paris has a balloon of his own, or cries till
he gets one ; and this, or a parachute, he is perpetually
throwing out of his nursery window, to his own imminent
danger, or dragging through the streets, to the annoyance
of the passers-buy. The new name for parachute is " la
distraction des enfans," and the distraction sellers attract
your attention at the corner of every street. The Poitevins
now daily atta'n the greatest height of absurdity. Monsieur
and Madame ascend each on a horse attached to a balloon,
with agroom on another horse,atarespectful distance below.
Amongst the suicides are some remarkable ones. The
body of an officer was found in le his de Vincennes, sup-
posed to have been shot in a duel. A late governor of
Martinique, who decended from a cabriolet in le Rue des
Noyers, at the Hotel des Arts, ordered a room and a cold
chicken with a bottle of wine. Shortly afterwards a report
was heard, and on forcing the door lie was found with his
brains blown out, and a pistol loaded on the table. An-
other is more extraordinary. Beranger, a fisherman at
Quillebceuf, opened the veins of his arm, his neighbours
came in and prevented his bleeding to death, and got him
home. There, with a rope he had nailed on the wall, he

got on a chair, and threw himself off; twice the nail and
chair gave way, but the third time he succeeded. A neigh-
bour forced open the door and cut him down, when Ber-
anger squeezed his hand and died. It is astonishing the
propensity there appears to be to commit suicide.
The Bordeaux journals state that, for some time back,
the dealers in leeches in that city had a quantity offered to
them for sale. The price was so low that suspicions were
excited that these persons must have become illegally
possessed of them. One night a watch was kept by five
gendarmes, and at last it was found that not less than
seven men, naked to the waist, entered the marshes of
Bruges, and there letting the leeches bite their legs,
picked them off and threw them into a vessel prepared to
receive them. When the gendarmes saw the men well
engaged in their work, they cried out to them, in the
name of the law, to deliver themselves up. Far from
doing so, the whole seven took to flight in different direc-
tions. The gendarmes then called upon them to stop, or
they would Are. The runaways, however, not paying any
attention to this threat, the carbines were discharged and
two of them wounded ; four others were overtaken and
made prisoners, whilst the seventh escaped. The two
wounded men were taken to the hospital, and the four
arrested lodged in prison.
THE MONSTER TRIAL AT LYONS.—On the conclusion
of the sitting of the court-martial on Monday, some hun-
dreds of persons followed the advocates for the Prisoners,
and intended to accompany t hem to the Hotel de l'Europe,
but when the procession reached the bridge, a platoon of
cavalry cut through the cortege in such a way as to sepa-
rate the advocates from the crowd, and the latter were
preVented from going further, while the former proceeded
quietly to their hotel. No opposition whatever was made
to the soldiers. The same thing had occurred several times
in the course of the trial. A grave incident occurred in
the proceedings on Tuesday. Soon after the meeting of
the court the President announced that the counsel for
the prisoners had written to him to state that they with-
drew from the defence. This affair engrossed public at-
tention at Paris on Thursday. The withdrawal of the
counsel for the defence is regarded by many as an indica-
tion of an organised scheme on the part of the Mountain
and what is called the Jeune Montagne, who it is known
have had a reconciliation, and it is feared that the condem-
nation of the prisoners under such circurnstanees may
prove the signal for an outbreak in the southern and some
of the western departments. Others consider these appre-
hensions wholly unfounded.

EXPEDITION TO JAPAN.—A report is current that an
expedition is about to be sent from France into the sea of
Japan. is is said that it will consist of a frigate, a cor-
vette, and a steamer, under the orders of a rear-admiral.
This expedition will be at once military, commercial, and
scientific; and has for its object to open to European
commerce States which have been closed against it since
the 16th century.

REPUBLICAN FRATERNIZATION IN LONDON.—"About
thirty representatives belonging to the Mountain," says
the 2lfessager, " are in a few days to take their departure
for London. A banquet is to be given to them by the
French and Italian refugees there. The principal object
of their journey is to come to some understanding as to
the candidate whom they ought to support for the office
of the President of the Republic."